Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Most of the contributions I have seen so far on how to raise economic growth have been either more political than economic or offered little. The Chancellor’s/Government initiatives so far have been less than successful. […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Congratulations to all of those who organised our brilliant Olympic Games; to the 70,000 cheerful volunteers, to all the competing athletes and the millions of supporters. All of these evidenced what I have always believed, […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. As we reach, what would normally be the half-way house between General Elections, and in the light of growing criticism of the Government in the media, it is arguably a good time to take stock […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Members of the current House of Lords have, self-evidently, an interest in continuing the status quo but this does not invalidate their expressing rational opposition to the proposed reforms. As the Labour Party has stressed, […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. I loved the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. How fortunate we are to have a constitutional monarchy as a focal point of loyalty (imagine if we had had President Brown!); and even more fortunate to have had […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. If I were of a conspiratorial nature I might think that the Government is wasting everybody’s time with pointless and unpopular House of Lords’ reform proposals and other minor issues as a smokescreen to support […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. It was not surprising that the Conservative leadership sought to dismiss the poor Local Government Election results as the usual midterm swing, a reaction to the weak economy and part of a wider drift to […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. As I have commented previously, what the Conservative-led Government is failing to realise is that the great majority of citizens have had enough of tax increases and will react with great hostility to any more. […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. This week's Budget was a curate’s egg with a lot in it that is good, some that is bad, and quite radical where the Chancellor had little overall net room for manoeuvre. Correctly, the Chancellor […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Having children is not a luxury. The future of the country and its economy depends upon there being enough children to sustain the economy in the future. It is expensive, and has become even more […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. The brutal, internal devaluation measures being forced on Greece by Germany and the EU are likely to be self-defeating. They risk a recession so deep that Greece will not be able to climb out of […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. The parameters of the Eurozone crisis are really very straight forward. Investors are unwilling to buy Southern European Government bonds, partly because these Governments are manifestly over-borrowed but, particularly, because they perceive a major exchange […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Here is something to take our minds off the Euro crisis, though it's a “can of worms”. Salmond’s target is apparently “Devolution max” – Scotland taking over responsibility for all of its affairs other than […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. On the face of it, it is sensible and practical to argue that to support measures to head off a default and banking implosion in the Eurozone; to sort out Britain’s own public finances and […]
Lord Flight was Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2001-2004 and led for the Opposition on the FSMA. He is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. The FSA announced on 7th September that they would be sticking to the New Year "Retail Distribution Review" deadline, but that, reflecting “proportionality”, Individual Financial Advisers will be […]