‘We have a shared duty to help rebuild Ukraine’
Remarks to Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Prague, 5 September 2022 Chairman, thanks so much...
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Our Bretton Woods institutions are key to debt diplomacy
For some years now, we have been having a debate in this country and among our allies about the influence of China and this vexed,...
Winning the Information Battlespace: An Agenda for Democrats
Remarks to OECD Parliamentary Network, Saeima of the Republic of Latvia Thanks you much, Mr. Chairman for that kind introduction. It’s...
Johnson’s Looming Trade War
Boris Johnson’s law breaking is about to cost us a fortune Liam Byrne, Tom Tugendhat and Vice President Sefcovic at the Berlaymont As...
How to improve the National Security Bill in just one clause
The National Security Bill got a fairly warm welcome when it came to second reading. But it’s missing one crucial component: measures to...
The Kanonosphere vs the Kleptosphere: The Post Invasion Equation
As the Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine this week, we had a debate in Parliament about the shape of things to come. Here’s my speech for...
Frozen but enjoyed? A quick guide to asset freezing
An Oligarch’s yacht sets sail Why isn’t Britain actually seizing the yachts, jets, mansions – or football clubs of Putin’s mates, when EU...
Russian gas and gravy trains
Graphic: The Daily Telegraph How to kick our dependence on both Quite rightly there’s a debate about how we kick European dependence on...
The dream of peace in the Balkans cauldron
Fitzroy Maclean, the great soldier-diplomat who organised supplies for Marshal Tito, once observed that the many diverse people of former...
The dream of peace in the Balkans cauldron
Fitzroy Maclean, the great soldier-diplomat who organised supplies for Marshal Tito, once observed that the many diverse people of former...
The ‘grey wall’ is still the biggest barrier to a Labour government
While Boris Johnson disgraces his office, Keir Starmer has distinguished himself with progress made and poll leads. But one key challenge...
Rising Prices, Failing Tories
The nice people at Tortoise invited me on to chat about ‘the prospects for inflation’ this week. Pulling together the research and...
REVEALED: the UK’S 11,000 shell companies no-one knows who owns.
Hats off to the #PandoraPapers team that’s exposed the sheer scale of the tax avoidance by 35 current and former global leaders –...
Grand Strategy on the Silk Road?
As the smoke clears on our disastrous retreat from Kabul, the Spectator’s James Forsyth rightly points in the Times, at the hole where...
Jab the World? The PM’s statement on G7 and NATO
After every major summit the Prime Minister comes back the Commons to update us and take questions. As you might, many of us zeroed in on...
Osborne detached on Marr
George Osborne today did a good impression on the Marr show, of being completely detached from the economic realities of the moment. On...
This week’s economic news
This week we’ve seen one of the key forward looking indicators of business confidence – the purchasing managers index for Britain’s...
Why its smart to invest in jobs
Yesterday I got confirmation of the Government’s decision to award millions of pounds to Birmingham and its partners to help create 7,500...
This week’s economic news
With this week’s news you can see why Alistair Darling has being saying repeatedly that we’re confident but cautious that growth will...
American economics
A few different angles to the debate about recovery economics from the US. Christina Romer’s argument about ‘bubble free growth’ sets out...
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