Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
THE latest revelations about British banks’ squalid, illegal and corrupt behaviour is another in a long line dating back to the Thatcher government’s deregulation of the City of London in the 1980s.
This enabled City financial institutions to become saloon-bar brawlers in a gambling casino where risks to customers’ money were taken and money laundering of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels was facilitated.
Barclays and RBS are among five banks being sued in Britain over allegations of rigging the foreign exchange market.
Burnham urged to raise taxes on banks after Barclays reveals 30% rise in pre-tax profits
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests



