Tag Archives: Labour

There’s small choice in rotten apples. You know that old saying about people who live in glasshouses should refrain from stone-throwing? Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the Prime Minister, Sir Kier Starmer, for whom, it would seem, that phrase is astonishingly apt. Sir Kier, as Leader of …

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water I was at an event a few weeks ago with some merchants and suppliers. All more or less agreed on two things. 1, that things are, and have been for some time, about as bad as anyone …

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so The UK political landscape was ripe for reform. We knew that, but we didn’t necessarily mean it the way that it turned out last week. Has the political landscape in the UK changed after Thursday May 1? Yes. …

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. Is our housing sector broken? I don’t just mean in terms of its output, which the last few CPA and PMI surveys …

Family-owned farming businesses are not the only ones to be negatively impacted by the Government’s proposals to change inheritance tax, the merchant industry should be right alongside them. Tha’s according to Chris Hayward, CEO of independent merchant buying group NMBS, who says: “Many people are realising that the new proposals …

Harriet Harman KC, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, will be a keynote speaker at the BMF All Industry Conference 2025, in Barcelona next June. Harman represented the constituency of Camberwell and Peckham as the Labour Member of Parliament from 1982 to 2024. In 2024 she was appointed to …

Next year’s BMF All Industry Conference has completely sold out, less than four weeks since details of the event were announced. BMF CEO John Newcomb said: “We have been overwhelmed by the speed and extent of demand for next year’s Conference.  We are now at our absolute maximum capacity of …

And the government by the people, for the people, of the people shall not perish from this earth So it came to pass that the blue hue the UK political landscape turned in 2019 was diluted last night with shades of yellow, green, that wishy-washy pale Reform blue, and red. …

the rain came plunging through the leaves as if every drop were a great leaden bead. We’ve known for ages that there would be a General Election this year. There has to be, as the five years since Boris Johnson’s triumphant ‘Get Brexit Done’ demolishing of the red wall, is …

Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, visited builders’ merchant C&W berry, in Leyland, as he unveiled his vision for creating jobs throughout Lancashire. Starmer held a question and answer session with staff members of the merchant and his plan to create jobs for construction workers, plumbers and installers …