Dave LevyOff to a rocky start? UK-EU relations and the Labour ‘reset’Earlier this month Keir Starmer went to Brussels to meet the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a much —…6d ago6d ago
Dave LevyIt’s not just trust!In a Labour List report Pat McFadden MP, in writing an introduction for a coming report on trust from the SMF, is quoted as saying, “ ……Oct 11Oct 11
Dave LevyNo more a nation of shopkeepersI went on the National Rejoin March. These are the notes I made if I had been chosen to represent Another Europe on the platform.Oct 8Oct 8
Dave LevyLabour’s “thick” red lines!Why have the Labour Government trapped themselves with so many Red Lines? We have Reeves’ on the economy and now it seems Starmer and…Oct 6Oct 6
Dave LevyThe rEUle of lawI once attended a HoC home affairs select committee where I saw that some Tory members were quite shocked that the EU would require…Oct 1Oct 1
Dave LevyGrowth vs Public Debt managementYou don’t have to be a modern monetarist to believe that the UK has a debt crisis but there are a number of well evidenced and widely…Sep 211Sep 211
Dave LevyDemocracy is about policy tooIn a meeting last night, of my Union branch, and we were being spoken to by an MP, who argued that he stood on a Manifesto, and that this…Sep 18Sep 18
Dave LevyUniversalismIn his latest blog, Phil BC shares that the Labour Government, articulated by Rachel Reeves, want to end the pensioners winter fuel benefit…Sep 10Sep 10
Dave LevyThe missing courage of the ICOI note from Jim Killock’s pinned repost of a post by David Erdos on X, that the media and the ICO have issued a report, dated March 2024…Sep 4Sep 4
Dave LevyStarmer, Berlin, rejoineu and delayEven the press and some commentators noticed that Kier Starmer visited Berlin and repeated his Brexit red-lines and yet claimed to want to…Sep 1Sep 1