Financial Time (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Credit insurers as well as banks will be able to use our National Loans Guarantee Scheme to underwrite a significant percentage of any new loans to business, writes shadow business secretary Alan Duncan
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
After reading Peter Mandelson's unintentionally hilarious interview in the Guardian comparing Brown to Moses, Alan Duncan, his shadow says; "First global superhero and now Moses… Labour and Peter Mandelson should spend more time getting a grip on the country's problems and less time heaping praise on their failed leader. We face massive issues. The automotive sector is grinding to a halt, the payment...
The Yorksher Gob (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
You all know this, right? I present, for your very great pleasure, the uncut, very sweary, awesomeness that is Brian presenting HIGNFY: Part one : Part Two (which involves much discussion of Richard Barnbrook's knackers): Part Three : Part Four (which involves Brian flirting with Alan Duncan): Part Four-and-a-half : You can't beat a posh shouty Yorkshireman with an ENORMOUS beard swearing and calling...
Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
The Arawak (etc) oil man Alan Duncan - deep deep deep in the pocket of the petrochemical industry, and let's not speculate about aluminium and Deripaska - is making a speech tonight . Labour's favourite Tory blogger Iain Dale says, and I quote that it is "the best exposition of the Conservative approach that I have seen yet". Best of a bad bunch. But perhaps this is Oily's bid for GOO's job? Might...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Alan Duncan is making a speech tonight to the Chemical Industries Association which spells out in very stark terms the difference between the Conservative and Labour approaches to the economic crisis. I'm quoting a long extract from it because I think it's the best exposition of the Conservative approach that I have seen yet. The tragedy for Britain is that just when we'd like to be able to draw on...
Forgesian Thinking (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
I just watched Paxman interviewing Tony McNulty and Alan Duncan on the economic crisis and it’s curious how the tables have turned in British politics since 1997. In 1987 and 1992 Labour lost two general election mainly on the electorate not trusting them with the economy. Tax and spending was the Tories’ electoral forte for [...]
Flip Chart Fairy Tales (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Tory MP Alan Duncan has told Personnel Today that a Conservative government would reform and simplify British employment law. One proposal is to award costs against employees who lose tribunal claims, to discourage vexatious claims. Many HR Directors welcomed this suggestion. Helen Giles of the charity Broadway said: The courts have cases with little merit but public [...]
Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Alan Duncan, the shadow trade and industry secretary, says a Conservative Government would keep the contract with the Royal Mail. Writing on the Daily Telegraphh website he says: "The Post Office Card Account is the lifeline keeping what is left of our post office network alive. "If the Government pulls the plug and sends POCA business elsewhere, the whole network will be plunged into unmanageable...
Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
That Interview - though the player may be playing up. But here's the Telegraph Report : Alan Duncan attacks BBC interviewer Shelagh Fogarty The Conservative shadow business minister Alan Duncan launched a firece broadside against BBC Radio Five Live presenter Shelagh Fogarty during an interview. As David Cameron calls for tax cuts for small firms, hear Tory shadow business minister Alan Duncan clash...
Rob Newman (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
A better question: is Alan Duncan a serious interviewee?
Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Alan Duncan has called on the Government to help small companies and boost jobs by cutting the rate of employers’ National Insurance by 1p for at least six months. The cut forms part of a fully-funded package that would also see the small companies’ rate of corporation tax reduced to 20p. Alan, the Shadow Secretary for Business, said, “Small businesses are facing very difficult financial pressures...
Five Live Breakfast (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
A flurry of comment about the interview Shelagh did with Alan Duncan on Monday morning. On this blog it's reckoned Shelagh can do no wrong. And here it's claimed that Alan Duncan lost the plot. A blogger on another site believes Alan Duncan floored Shelagh with his handbag , while the exchange was also flagged up on the Telegraph online and Alan Duncan's performance was praised here
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
This morning, over breakfast, I was listening to BBC Radio 5 Live, as I often do. On the back of the news, presenter Shelagh Fogarty was interviewing the Shadow Business Minister, Alan Duncan. It was an extraordinary interview. Mr Duncan was outlining Tory plans for small business, when he was asked how long he thought the recession might last. "What a silly question" he said. Ms Fogarty asked him...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Alan Duncan, Shadow Secretary of State for Business is on the war path. When I spoke to him this week he was livid, 5 ft 6in of grrrrrrr... The past week has offered the Tories a chance to hone their analogy skills on two fronts. The return of Mandelson, He's like a rat joining a sinking ship And Brown's financial crisis, He's like an arsonist who comes with a hose pipe and says look at me I'm...
longbridge conservatives (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Councillors Keith and Sue Barton along with Councillor Ken Wood invite comments, views and discussions particularly about Longbridge, Birmingham and current political issues.
