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Sky News’ Adam Boulton at Fleishman-Hillard
Today’s Business Breakfast with one of the biggest names in British political journalism, Adam Boulton, attracted a capacity crowd from businesses such as Huawei, BAE Systems, Virgin Media, Aviva and Arup and charities such as the Francis Crick Institute, Oxfam and Cancer Research …Read Post
Budget 2012: Pre-Budget analysis
(It’s battered red box time…) Overview Despite recent political headwinds, the overriding context for the Budget remains the deficit and the need for Chancellor George Osborne to show he is staying the course. Anything else would cause a huge loss …Read Post
Deputy Mayor for Transport at Fleishman-Hillard
Many thanks to Isabel Dedring, London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport, for talking to a packed Monday morning Business Breakfast here at Fleishman-Hillard London. Isabel talked with huge enthusiasm about our capital city, its transport system and the Olympics and engaged in …Read Post
Lords Reform: Apocalypse Later
Influential Conservative blogger Tim Montgomerie has a weekly campaign, and this week he takes on House of Lords reform under the provocative headline “Nick Clegg may leave the Coalition if he doesn’t get an elected Lords”. Presaging this, last weekend …Read Post
Splits, Glorious Splits: Are the Liberal Democrats Falling Apart? And if So, So What?
Consigned to perennial opposition, the Liberal Democrats’ distinctively democratic processes, under which the Parliamentary party answers to party conference – rather than the other way around – lead to occasional rebuffs for the party leadership. But whilst this was good …Read Post
Women Taking a Lead in Business
With Cameron in need of improving his perception among the female electorate, the chance to talk about the positive effects of women in business offered just such an opportunity. Unfortunately, what has dominated the media reaction to Cameron’s comments about …Read Post
New Contours for UK Financial Regulation
Governments have traditionally used the congested schedule in the run up to the Christmas break to deliver difficult news, safe in the knowledge that the news agenda will have moved on when Government attention returns to it in the New …Read Post
Britain’s Veto – Single Market Impacts
As the political dust settles over UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s withdrawal from new EU Treaty negotiations last Friday morning, we can begin to discern the impact on the single market, especially for financial services – the protection of which …Read Post
EU Council – Britain’s Veto
A major part of David Cameron’s modernisation plan for the Conservative Party was to heal their internal rift over Europe. This rift stemmed from the Conservative rebellion against UK Prime Minister John Major over the 1992 Maastricht Treaty – a …Read Post
Human Trafficking: Impact on Businesses
Fleishman-Hillard was delighted to host Baroness Mary Goudie and US Ambassador Luis CdeBaca at our Business Breakfast on human trafficking. Ambassador CdeBaca is Ambassador-at-Large at the US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and was in the UK …Read Post
