September 8, 2011
Yesterday I wrote about the legal advice that, according to the Telegraph and the Standard, the PM’s Director of Strategy Steve Hilton obtained from Martin Howe QC. According to the Telegraph: The Prime Minister’s office secretly commissioned its own legal advice .. Steve Hilton, Mr Cameron’s director of policy, is understood to have hired Martin [...]
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September 7, 2011
The Telegraph, reporting today on tension between 10 Downing Street and the Department for Business over implementing the Agency Workers Directive, tells us Downing Street has been told by lawyers that the Business Secretary’s department has “gold-plated” the legislation with additional rules that need not have been included, despite a pledge by the Coalition not [...]
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