Constitutional Reform
Phoenix Group (“Phoenix”), the UK’s largest long term savings and retirement business, is today announcing it is establishing Phoenix Insights, a new centre of research and ideas that will drive forward greater public engagement and challenge society to help everyone live better longer lives. Phoenix recognises that to realise the potential of longer lives, there… Read more »
BASC will use its Fighting Fund to back heather burning after Wild Justice announced the launch of its latest legal challenge. Wild Justice – run by Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery – is seeking a judicial review to challenge regulations governing the burning of heather, rough grass, bracken and gorse on peat deeper… Read more »
Latest articles
The Conservatives warned last night the ministerial code was “in tatters” after the prime minister insisted there was no need for an investigation into John Prescott’s behaviour. Tony Blair told BBC One’s The Politics Show yesterday that suggestions his deputy had broken the code in his meetings with American billionaire Philip Anschutz were not backed… Read more »
Tony Blair has robustly denied the allegations that peerages were given to wealthy Labour donors who gave the party loans prior to the last general election. The prime minister explained that the lines between honours and working peerages had become blurred, and this was what lay behind the cash-for-peerages scandal. “Nobody in the Labour party… Read more »