I had not read, until today, in detail, the new rules on complaints within the Labour Party. The version published before Conference, well during conference, in the CAC reports were physically very hard to read. The rules are spread over Chapters 1, 2 and 6 and contain significant numbers of…

The Bank of England was made ‘independent’ of the Treasury, although not really, so that it could take the blame for any decisions to increase interest rates, such as those taken earlier this week (£) when the Bank increased bank rate to fight inflation. Why would they do that? Inflation…

Last year, I wrote a blog called Classifying Risks, on my LinkedIn blog and over the last few days I found some notes that might add to what I said then. How does one work out the importance of a risk and how much to spend on mitigation. …

I have not studied all the new rules as passed at 2021 conference, but this is a note on proscribed acts and prohibited acts and how they are dealt with. The existence and role of the Independent Review Board and Independent Complaints Panel are defined across multiple clauses and chapters…

Starmer made another speech on economics on Monday 25th July. It is reported in the Guardian, and possibly summarised with this quote, Starmer has been trying to pitch Labour as the party of fiscal prudence and will say: “With me and with Rachel Reeves [the shadow chancellor], you will always…

The Labour Party can’t issue the ballots for their internal elections; they claim it’s a consequence of the cyber-breach last October. The Party seems to have attempted to create a replacement membership database by updating its mail manager system and presumably adjusting the feeds although much of the functionality previously…

Over the last 24 hours, possibly longer after I actually publish this piece, Sean Jones QC, has published two longish twitter threads on Labour and Brexit. He was inspired or provoked by an interview on Cambell & Stewart’s “The Rest is Politics” of Kier Starmer. Jones’s 1st thread asks how…

The Forde Report commissioned by Labour’s NEC has been published. …