The UK government’s long-awaited Magnitsky legislation getting Royal Assent Law will allow sanctions to be imposed on those linked to human rights abuses Campaigners and MPs want ministers to make immediate use of the new powers Ministers are facing demands to hammer Russian oligarchs with tough sanctions today as the…
Read MoreRUSSIAN oligarchs are flooding London with “dirty money” – and ministers are failing to stop them, a new report warns today. A powerful Commons committee said it was “business as usual” for wealthy Russians despite Vladimir Putin’s increasing global meddling. As much as £100billion of Russian cash has poured in…
Read MoreNationalisation would take us back to the bad old days, but franchising is too brittle and keeps falling over. John asks for reassurances about the future…
Read MoreHousing developers should be given an “enormous shot in the arm” and charged council tax and business rates as soon as planning permission is granted, a Tory former minister has urged. John Penrose told MPs “the meter should start running” immediately after developers are granted permission in order to ramp…
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