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Subject: News Bulletin from Greg Hands MP #484
Date: 25 September 2017 at 18:43
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Photo news:
Greg Hands meeting Fulham residents and
shopkeepers who assisted those affected
by and evacuated from the Parsons Green
terror attack on 15th September
Hands in the papers:
Minister for London Greg Hands criticised
the 'blanket ban' on Uber
William Schomberg, Reuters
Saturday 23rd September 2017
The British capital's transport regulator deemed Uber unfit to run a tax
service and said its licence would not be renewed when it expires on
Sept. 30. London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a member of the opposition
Labour Party, backed the move.
"At the flick of a pen Sadiq Khan is threatening to put 40,000 people
out of work and leave 3.5 million users of Uber stranded," Greg
Hands, the government minister for London, wrote on Twitter late on
Friday.
He said Uber had to address safety concerns and it was important that
there was a level playing field across the private hire market.
In backing the decision to strip Uber of its licence, Khan said: "All
private-hire operators in London need to play by the rules. The safety
and security of customers must be paramount."
Uber has said it will contest the decision. Regulator Transport for
London (TfL) said it would let Uber operate until the appeals process
is exhausted, which could take months.
Photo news:
Hands launches new solar panel scheme
Current Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Greg Hands, will
take overall responsibility for the Trade Policy portfolio, taking the
Trade Bill through the House of Commons and delivering a trade
policy for the UK through the Trade Policy Group.
Existing DIT Minister, Mark Garnier, will become the Minister for
Investment and have responsibility for foreign direct investments into
the UK and UK investments overseas.
Greg Hands said: Over the past 12 months weve helped secure
more foreign direct investment projects than ever before, supported
thousands of UK businesses on their export journey generating
billions of pounds, and continue to promote the UKs trade values
across the world.
Lord Price said: It has been an honour to serve as Minister for Trade
and Investment and then Trade Policy following the EU referendum.
Over the last 12 months DIT has grown to a global workforce of over
3,200 people operating in 108 countries. The Trade Policy Group that
includes policy and country specialists, as well as expert economic
analysts and lawyers, has grown 5-fold.
Photo news:
Hands addresses "Think Asia, Think Hong
Kong" event
Photo news:
Hands visits Fulham firm Ignis
I voted to remain as did many in the City but we must respect the
democratic will of the people and get on with securing the best deal for
everyone in the United Kingdom. We have now triggered Article 50,
and there is no going back.
Since the referendum vote, the Conservatives have set out a clear
plan to guide the country through the crucial exit talks and deliver what
the British people voted for, seizing the opportunities offered by Brexit.
This plan is in place so that everyone, from the owner of your local
corner shop to multinational businesses investing in our capital city,
knows when and how Brexit will happen.
In that time, the Labour party has been doing everything it can to
frustrate the process, creating confusion, concern and uncertainty on
the way.
The past week just confirms what we have seen from the opposition
party all year: Labour has no idea about what it wants as we leave the
EU.
This is Labours tenth plan in just 14 months from calling for the
immediate triggering of Article 50 on the morning of the referendum
result, to firing shadow frontbenchers for voting to stay in the Single
Market, and now calling for the UK to stay in the Single Market long
after Britain leaves the EU.
Its only a matter of time before their position changes again. Labours
stance on Brexit is just not credible.
This uncertainty and flip-flopping does not provide clarity for you, your
family, or businesses across the UK. You want to know exactly what
Brexit will mean for you, the City, and Britains place in the global
economy. This is why the Conservatives have set out exactly what we
want to achieve from leaving the EU.
We know that as we exit the EU the country will face new challenges,
but since the referendum we have set out a clear plan for how we deal
with these changes.
Photo news:
Hands addresses British American
Business Council
Until this summer, the old guard of moderates had Momentum under
control. Take Lambeth, where this website previously reported the
activity of the hard left. Despite the local Momentum branch occupying
a library to oppose the council, the Labour moderates appear to have
blocked every lunatic who tried to become a candidate. Even in a
ward chaired by legendary 1980s hard-left Council Leader, Red Ted
Knight, they avoided deselections of sitting councillors.
Now the Corbynites are on the march. An early sign was the
deselection of a Southwark councillor last month, which prompted an
open letter to Labours NEC. The letter objected to a young LGBT
woman of colour [being] deselected in favour of a white man who
doesnt live in the ward. Thats a definite basis for concern, but not
the only one, it seems. In her own statement, Cllr Jury-Dada referred
to factional swipes and internal Labour party fighting.
Council Leaderships
How many senior councillors and group leaders are actually at risk? In
Hounslow, ex-Guardian journalist Dave Hill says council leader Steve
Curran is understood to be seriously concerned about surviving as a
member for Syon ward. Elsewhere, the problem for leaders is more
likely to occur when their newly-elected hard-left councillors arrive at
town halls.
Imagine those first Labour group meetings, where they decide their
nomination for the Leader of the Council, if Momentum has a dozen or
more representatives? Or the outcomes across the other nominated
positions, as old factions are given new life?
For example, the voters of Islington could endorse the manifesto and
record of Richard Watts, only to get Momentums NEC member,
Claudia Webbe. A lurch (further) to the left might be popular, in the
short-term, on Corbyns home turf. In boroughs like Southwark, it
would come as a shock.
Worse still, in boroughs where Labour are trying to take control, they
will offer an entirely false prospectus. Look at Wandsworth, which has
an excellent Conservative council. The Opposition is led by Simon
Hogg, a bland Blairite, who will no doubt reassure voters that the low
tax and good services they have come to expect would continue under
Labour. But this is hogwash twice over, as residents could get his
Corbynista deputy, Candida Jones.
Those with long memories will recall that the London Labour Party has
form here. In 1981, Labour moderates won that years GLC election,
and their leader Andrew McIntosh was looking forward to
implementing his manifesto. Within 24 hours of the polling stations
closing, he had been deposed by a group of Labour councillors
espousing a much more radically leftist agenda, led by one Ken
Livingstone.
Its been a long time since the loony left ran councils. Perhaps the
closest recent example is the Greens in Brighton, where chaos soon
followed. Londoners need to be reminded whats at stake.
Housing
Yet the lefts answer is always the same, whatever the question: more
social rent.
Services
Again, what will happen with the hard left running these councils? With
councillors who despise their own contactors and express their
solidarity with the more militant unions? If your rubbish collection gets
missed and your street isnt cleaned by one of these new Labour (but
definitely not New Labour) Councils, dont be surprised.
Yet if you google the terms Sadiq Khan, Momentum, and criticise,
the most youll find is some ageing chastisement of the Mayors
nominee for Party Leader. As the date of the next Labour leadership
contest slips over the horizon, Khan as a future hope of some
moderates isnt of present assistance.
This is where the readers of this website can help. If youre a London
councillor, and a Labour colleague lets slip they have been
deselected, let me know. If you follow a local left-wing activist on
Twitter and they say they are a candidate, let me know. If youre a
member of the Labour Party worried about your borough, with full
anonymity, you can let me know.
The loony left could be making a comeback in the capital. The task for
London Conservatives is to ensure Londoners arent misled next May.
Photo news:
Hands in Prague
Pakistan, however, could graduate from GSP Plus anytime till 2023 for
noncompliance with anyone of the 27 conventions related to human
and labour rights.
Britain has been seeking to boost global trade ties following its last
year vote to leave the EU. Pakistani officials, also seeking a GSP
Plus-like deal with post-Brexit Britain, viewed the UK leaving the EU
will hit the countrys exports.
A wider trade gap also inflated the July-August current account deficit,
which widened 102 percent to $2.601 billion in the first two months of
the current fiscal year.
The minister said the British export credit agency, UK Export Finance
had doubled Pakistan specific export facilitation fund to 400 million
from 200 million to promote bilateral trade.
Photo news:
Hands visits Greenwich Peninsula
Photo news:
Hands revisits university where he studied
the Czech language
The issue is of personal importance for Greg as not only are 17 per
cent of his constituents EU nationals, but Gregs own wife is from
Germany. Furthermore, Greg has lived in both Germany and the
Czech Republic, and as a result of his commitments as Minister for
International Trade he frequently visits other EU countries. Greg
speaks five European languages.
To view the Governments Policy Paper in full, please follow the link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safeguarding-the-
position-of-eu-citizens-in-the-uk-and-uk-nationals-in-the-eu/the-
united-kingdoms-exit-from-the-european-union-safeguarding-the-
position-of-eu-citizens-living-in-the-uk-and-uk-nationals-living-in-
the-eu
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