Tag Archives: Shriti Vadera

Thus interprets the UK MP's expenses guidelines, for the (sole) benefit of honourable members

All this “I stuck to the Rules” stuff delivered to camera by our alternately defiant or ashen faced betters in the Mother of Parliaments prompted me to take a look at the rules (the “Green Book”) of which we’ve heard so much. It’s less than gripping stuff but, as rule books go, it’s fairly clear [...]

Shriti Vadera. Crazy name, crazy gal. Gordon's most trusted advisor..

. . . and that’s the problem. By John J Kelly. The shortcomings of ‘Baroness’ Shriti Vadera, junior Business Minister and one of the principal architects of the Private Finance Initiative, a tsunami-in-waiting for the UK economy have been hidden, largely because the Guardian and others are too scared to have a go at Gordon’s well-connected special [...]