Tag Archive for Gordon Brown

Levison Inquiry,Gordon Brown and media briefing

Lord Soley

I gave written evidence to the Levison Inquiry last January and was asked to give additional evidence last month. I have now done that and it will be published by the Inquiry. My evidence is mainly about the type and form of any future regulation but it also contains my views about the way politics…

Boom and bust

Lord Soley

Lord Selsdon couldn’t resist a swipe in a question http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldhansrd/text/80604-0001.htm#08060470000003 aimed at the Labour Government on the economy  and recalling past battles about ‘boom and bust’. This was Gordon Brown’s frequent jibe at the last Tory governments economic policy. As I sat on the Opposition benches during a very long 18 years I recall it well!…