I want the City of London, which is the main European financial market place, to be upheld and supported. It will be if it has safer and healthier foundations, such as those which the G20 has asked for. What I'm doing is clearly implementing the G20 agenda which Britain has signed. I think there is financial incentives and interest in having safer and more secure foundations and it would be more competitive. But Barnier is unlikely to convince Lord Myners, the former Labour City minister. As the Financial Times reports today, Myners launched an extraordinary attack on Barnier in the Lords on Tuesday. He said that that Barnier was a vain man who should be treated "with a very long spoon".
Here's an extract.This report is yet another nail in the coffin for compassionate conservatism. After all the rhetoric the truth is becoming increasingly clear – this Government is undoing a decade of progress in tackling child poverty. 12.07pm: Stonewall has published some hefty research into attitudes to gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the UK. It shows that 58% of people - and more than 80% of people under 50 - support the government's plans for gay marriage.It also shows that 83% of people would be comfortable, very comfortable or neutral about an heir to the throne (William and Kate's first child, when he or she is born and grows up) being gay.The news release about the survey is here.
He was utterly devoted to his amazing family as well as being a wonderfully loyal friend who I will miss terribly.1.10pm: Here's a lunchtime summary.? Theresa May, the home secretary, has received the backing of Number 10 despite facing criticism over the way the UK Border Agency relaxed border controls over the summer. At the end of last week Brodie Clark, the head of the agency, was suspended after it emerged border guards were told this summer not to bother checking fingerprints and other personal details against a Home Office database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants. Downing Street said today that David Cameron was only told about this recently. The prime minister's official spokesman said that Cameron was "very concerned" about the affair,
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This Polish cemetery seems warmed and soothed by the green light that emanates from Bhatt's memory of her childhood garden in Poona.?ód?I hesitate to saywhat I think:'This cemetery is beautiful' –this cemetery that wasonce in the heart of the ghetto –But it was there beforethe ghetto – and it is stillbeing used today.The earthis trying to heal itself –I am reluctant to leave –The silence between the dead –The silence between the wild flowersand the sky – the silence that pulls medeeper into my own beingis what keeps mestanding here looking for anotherpath I could walk down –It is May and the greenshadows falling across the stonesmake me thinkthat if I lived in this townI would visitthis place every day –It is May but I tell myselfthat if I lived in this townI would walk here evenduring the darkest days of Novemberand December –I'm just over 150 pages into Under the Volcano.
Here's an extract from the press release they have sent out.The unveiling of Big Society Capital is an important milestone in the Government's drive to grow the economy and build a bigger, stronger society. This is about applying business principles to tackle social problems on a sustainable basis – the institution's innovative funding structure carries no cost to the taxpayer and represents a new partnership between banks, government and the social sector.Big Society Capital will be capitalised with a total of ￡600 million. An estimated ￡400 million of this will come from unclaimed cash left dormant in bank accounts for over 15 years and ￡200 million will come from the UK's four largest high street banks Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC and RBS.
Number 10 said that tax decisions would be announced in the budget and that the quad - David Cameron, George Osborne, Clegg and Danny Alexander - had not yet discussed the details of the budget. (See 12.01pm.)? Lord Mandelson has said that he is no longer "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich". In an interview on the Today programme, reflecting comments he has made in a foreword to an IPPR report, he said that Labour had now acknowledged the extent to which globalisation was increasing inequality. "Globalisation is generating income inequalities within countries and between countries that we simply can't and shouldn't live with," he said. (See 9.36am.)? Nick Herbert, the policing minister,
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That meant it would be impossible for any future government to do what Labour did with the Lisbon treaty. He went on:As prime minister, I'm not intending to pass any powers from Britain to Brussels, so I don't think the issue will arise. ? He said making the EU competitive was even more important than addressing the debt crisis.There is a danger here that European leaders will miss what really needs to be done in terms of Europe and the eurozone. Of course there is a fiscal debt crisis in many parts of Europe, and everyone is having to take very difficult decisions to get their budgets under control ... But underlying the problems,
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