John recently wrote to Ministers about speeding up new laws to reveal UK properties bough with dirty money by kleptocrats, oligarchs and organised criminals. Here is the reply he was sent: Thank you for your letter of 26 July 2018 about the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill, and your kind…
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The revitalisation of a vacant Weston-super-Mare building is nearing completion, with hopes it will ‘inject fresh energy’ to the town centre. The former Co-operative Bank building, on the corner of Meadow Street and Alexandra Parade is being converted into flats and retail space, with the project due to be finished…
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Liz Truss shared the article [by John Penrose MP] calling for the government to be forced to keep to its “day-to-day budget” balanced. A senior minister has endorsed a proposal to let members of the public sue the government for spending too much. Liz Truss, chief secretary to the Treasury,…
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Economists never agree on anything, right? Sometimes not even with themselves: President Truman famously asked for a one-armed economist because he got so fed up with them saying ‘on one hand this, but on the other hand that’. But hang on. Pretty much all of them agree that Britain’s economy…
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