Margaret Hodge

20 people to meet at Labour’s conference – POLITICO

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20 people to meet at Labour’s conference – POLITICO

Neil Amin-Smith Neil Amin-Smith | Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for GLAAD He’s a former popstar who’s now the main adviser on financial services policy for Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Neil Amin-Smith, the ex-violinist of chart-topping band Clean Bandit, is the key political person in the Treasury for City policy and for the party’s investment ambitions. He also … Read more

Keir Starmer’s plan to tackle the far right? Fill some potholes. – POLITICO

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Keir Starmer’s plan to tackle the far right? Fill some potholes. – POLITICO

Later, advisers to the council came up with the idea of cracking down on “eyesore gardens” which had been left to go to ruin by buy-to-let landlords. One of the people behind the initiative was Morgan McSweeney, now Starmer’s righthand man in Downing Street — though other Labour activists point out his arrival in Barking … Read more