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Late on Monday 5 September, when the government accepted Amendment 145 to the finance bill, I was unaware that it was the only non-government amendment to make it into the bill. The amendment empowered ministers to require large multinationals with a headquarters or...

Aristotle famously said that nature abhors a vacuum. He was half right in the sense that, given a chance, denser material will rush in to fill the void. But as we now know, large parts of the universe do manage to persist in a state of emptiness. It is...

The strongly worded message from the Japanese government to the United Kingdom and European Union on Brexit was both predictable and concerning. During the referendum campaign many Japanese companies warned of the uncertainty that a ‘Leave’ result would cause and also...

This week I introduced a bill to parliament, which will protect in British law the workers’ rights currently derived from the European Union. Many suggestions were made by the Leave campaign about how the country would look, should the country vote to leave the EU –...