GLOBAL NEWS: Countries must co-ordinate to reveal shell company owners, fight money laundering: U.K. MP
Effectively tackling the challenge of money laundering will require countries to co-ordinate their laws so they can force the owners of shell companies involved out into the light, says the U.K.’s point person on anti-corruption. In an interview with the West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, John Penrose, who is the U.K. Minister of State…
Read MoreWhy railways should be more like airlines – and how passengers would gain if they were
There’s just the faintest whiff of new thinking in our railways. A breath of cool air on a passenger’s cheek that might, just possibly, herald a wind of change. And it’s coming, improbably, from the next-door sector of airlines. The Rail Delivery Group, a big-shot industry trade association, has just…
Read MoreThe Telegraph: Brexit delay ‘an elephant trap that we can’t escape’, senior ministers warn
Article originally published in The Telegraph on 24/02/2019. It was written by Edward Malnick, Sunday Political Editor. Delaying Britain’s departure from the EU is an “elephant trap” that could kill off Brexit altogether, senior ministers warned on Saturday night. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, John Penrose, the Northern Ireland minister,…
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