Is Ed Miliband moving to the centre?
Gary Gibbon on Ed Miliband’s speech at the Labour party conference: is there a policy shift as the Labour leader rides the wave of public opinion?
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As an FSA report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland blames its own light-touch regulation and poor management, the bank’s chairman tells Channel 4 News he supports tougher sanctions.
A report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) by the FSA will blame light-touch regulation and a catalogue of financial errors for pushing it to a taxpayer bailout in 2008.
Gary Gibbon on Ed Miliband’s speech at the Labour party conference: is there a policy shift as the Labour leader rides the wave of public opinion?
In his keynote Labour conference address, party leader Ed Miliband offers a “new bargain” to the people of Britain. Top Labour figures tell Channel 4 News the speech was “typical Ed”.
MPs must reform privacy laws to simplify the use of injunctions that gag the media, judges said today, throwing the gauntlet at Parliament’s feet.
A major review led by judges and libel lawyers into the use of injunctions to gag the media is set to be published amid fears the legal tool is damaging freedom of speech in the UK.
Is the independent report on banking “transformative”? Economics Editor Faisal Islam is not convinced.
Faisal Islam’s full interview with RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester.
Amid reports that RBS’s chief executive is in line for a £2.5m bonus, Prime Minister David Cameron says the state-owned bank should be leading the way in awarding smaller bonuses.
A report into the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland will not be a “blow by blow account”. Business Secretary Vince Cable tells Channel 4 News it’s “a highly unsatisfactory position”.
Lloyds Bank chief executive Eric Daniels announces he will retire in a year’s time, a move that will be welcomed by some of the bank’s shareholders.
Gordon Brown and David Cameron both have clear, two-pronged messages for the final leaders debate, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Channel 4 News Economics correspondent Faisal Islam examines the news that the Bank of England loand more than £60bn to RBS and HBoS in secret.
Yet more indications today of Britain’s radically altered political landscape. Some irony that the Labour left’s long-desired aim to cancel a raft of multibillion pound defence contracts will, in all probability, be realised by a Conservative chancellor responding to the costs of a crisis in capitalism. I can’t get across enough how much this crisis…
I return from my “hostile environment” course with the word exsanguate ringing in my ears. It’s not a word I knew. But you cannot deal with battlefield scenarios without coming across the appalling prospect of an arterial bleed. Pumping red, the stuff exsanguates from the body, and the only response, if it is in the…