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Only when real middle incomes started to be severely squeezed in 2010 and 2011 did this debate start to gain political traction - and it is not going to melt away.
The Lilley Report on the Draft Financial Services Bill, produced even without final sight of the government response to Vickers, is an excellent sign of effective legislation scrutiny.
I'm a lobbyist. I'm really proud to be one.After the last few days of headlines you would have thought I would want to keep my head down. Not at all. Now is the time to stand up for transparent lobbying and to drive out of the industry once and for all those who not prepared to stand up for transparency.
One headline this morning is likely to put the biggest smile on the Chancellor's face - news that China is keen to back investment in UK plc.
Mervyn is predicting a rapid return to lower inflation in the coming year. As the effects of the VAT increase earlier in 2011 drop out of the numbers in the first quarter of 2012, there will be a marked effect. That we can be sure of.
With a Eurozone crisis raging throughout the period, August rioting and talk of 'economic war' from some UK Cabinet members, it appears British businesses and consumers have confounded the media, political and economic commentariat.
So a deal has been done. The Euro has been 'saved' according to the French finance minister.
I'm sitting in Brussels today for the EU Summit and it feels like the eyes of the world are on this city... and they are.
We are about to reach what we all hope will be the final denouement of this longest running Greek tragedy.
Tomorrow we will get the Cabinet Office report on the Adam Werritty affair and one thing is clear - Werritty was not part of the current self-regulatory process, not a member of CIPR Public Affairs, the Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC), or the PRCA.
I first got my BlackBerry in 2004 and it changed my life. From then on I have been always ON. The kind of emotionally nourishing break from the world of work we used to crave on our evenings, weekends and holidays just went out the window.
Another weekend, another set of 'solutions' for the Eurozone hammered out in Paris or Berlin. Not that we know the details yet - of course not.
They used to call economics the 'dismal science'. Now it's politics.
