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Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid
FORMER chancellor Sajid Javid has followed the well-worn path of his predecessors into banking by accepting a paid job with JP Morgan, it emerged today.
But concerns have been raised over “obvious” conflicts of interest as he will remain an MP.
Mr Javid, who had worked for the bank in the 1990s before going into politics, has been appointed senior adviser on the US bank’s advisory council for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR