EU referendum: David Cameron pressed from every side of the House of Commons over EU reforms during Prime Minister’s Questions February 3, 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron was met with acrimony on every side of the House of Commons today as he was quizzed on his European Union reform agenda. Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Cameron came under pressure from backbench Conservative MPs, as well as Labour MPs and the Scottish National Party. John Mann, a Labour MP who [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Labour candidate Sadiq Khan says he is embarrassed by Labour’s failures with British businesses February 4, 2016 Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has admitted he is embarrassed by his party's failure to win the backing of British businesses. "It's a huge embarrassment," Khan told City A.M. in an interview yesterday, pointing to an incident last year when former shadow chancellor Ed Balls was unable to name a single Labour supporter from the [...]
Zac Goldsmith seems to have found his mojo: But is it too late to defeat Sadiq Khan? May 3, 2016 City Social, on the 24th floor of Tower 42, is used to hosting London’s power brokers, and it would take an interesting guest to tempt the diners to look up from their menus or their phones. Nobody reaches for their cameras when I take a window seat with Zac Goldsmith, but they definitely notice him. [...]
MPs to vote on idea of England adopting an official national anthem separate from God Save the Queen January 13, 2016 There's a chance you may find yourself belting out a new anthem as the England football team stand, shoulder to shoulder, chests puffed out with pride, before the final of the 2016 UEFA European Championship in Paris this summer. Okay, that's unlikely to happen, given England's record. But you may be singing a different anthem to their other matches: MPs could to [...]
EU referendum: Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says Mayor of London Boris Johnson is right about lack of democracy in the EU March 3, 2016 Mayor of London Boris Johnson is right in stating the European Union has a democratic deficit, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said. While Varoufakis wants the UK to stay in the EU, he said that when Johnson declared support for Brexit "he said, quite correctly, that Brussels is suffering from a serious lack [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson urges business not to allow Zac Goldsmith to use City Hall to push the UK out of the EU April 25, 2016 The City and London’s wider business community has been urged by a Labour grandee not to allow Tory mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith to “use City Hall as a vanguard for the Brexit campaign”. In his first intervention in the mayoral election, Lord Peter Mandelson exclusively told City A.M. that he wants to call on the business [...]
Google tax: European Commission sets out new proposals to crack down on tax avoidance January 28, 2016 The European Commission will today put forward new proposals to crack down on tax evasion and avoidance, as UK politicians continue to spar over Google’s tax payments. Pierre Moscovici, the EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, taxation and customs, is expected to lay out a series of legally-binding measures intended to close loopholes in [...]
Panama Papers: Here’s what you need to know ahead of the database release on Monday May 8, 2016 A database packed with information from the Panama Papers leak is due to be released tomorrow, providing authorities worldwide with potentially valuable leads for their investigations. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) announced that it would be launching the searchable database about a fortnight ago and wrote in a blog post that the database will contain information [...]
Why Labour lost: Internal party documents leaked to the BBC show that voters didn’t trust Labour on the economy and thought Ed Miliband was weaker than David Cameron January 14, 2016 Labour failed to win last year's General Election because voters didn't trust the party with the economy and thought Ed Miliband was a weaker leader than Prime Minister David Cameron, according to internal Labour party documents revealed this afternoon by the BBC. Then-interim Labour leader Harriet Harman commissioned a post-mortem last May, saying the party needed a "forensic, [...]
Editor’s Interview: Christian May meets Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan February 4, 2016 Clement Attlee dominates one wall in the meeting room of the Khan campaign HQ. I’m reading the plaque when Labour’s mayoral candidate bursts into the room. “Funny story,” he says, “you’ll like this.” He offers a handshake and points to the portrait at the same time. “The only reason that’s here is because the party can’t [...]