Rothschilds' influence on UK politics

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With the story just breaking on Ed Milliband naming __ as his kind of business guy, only to for ---- to take a job with the Rothchild Group - a little too close to the dodgy past for comfort Sep 28

Given the devastating nature of its contents, it was an email which began in the most friendly terms. 'Dear James, I would be grateful if you would publish this letter in the Times asap. Warm regards, Nat.' Written by the multi-millionaire financier, Nat Rothschild, to his old associate James Harding, editor of the Times, it looked at first sight like a routine piece of business between two good pals. But the email and the letter attached to it would set in motion a sequence of events that within hours was threatening to destroy one of the most promising political careers at Westminster - that of Rothschild's close friend, the Shadow Chancellor and Tory golden boy, George Osborne. Sent at 2.26pm last Monday, the Rothschild message was soon relayed to the Conservative HQ at Westminster for a formal Tory reaction.

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Britain’s biggest teaching unions have set a collision course with the Government after voting for further industrial action including strikes which could hit schools this summer. The National Union of Teachers will seek a one-day national strike before the end of June, while the NASUWT agreed that intensifying its own campaign was “essential” in the face of a “vicious and unjustified assault on teachers”. Continued industrial action was “the best means of protecting and safeguarding the interests of teachers and state education until the next general election,” said the NASUWT. Their vote raises the prospect of strikes in the autumn term. Both unions are protesting at changes to teachers’ pensions which they say will see their members paying more, working longer and receiving less. The NASUWT is also campaigning against job losses and an erosion of working conditions.

The industrialist praised by Labour Party leader Ed Miliband as “the true face of British business” in a speech that said the U.K. needs “not financial engineering, but real engineering” has just become a banker. John Rose, former chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, was appointed last week as deputy chairman of Rothschild Group, which ranks sixth in Europe this year in providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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Osborne 'criticised David Davis' during Corfu meeting with Mandelson | Mail Online

George Osborne faced fresh embarrassment today after it was reported he had privately criticised David Davis in a conversation with Peter Mandelson. The shadow chancellor risked a backlash from the Right of the Tory party as senior colleagues warned that he had shown poor judgement in his dealings with the Business Secretary and financier Nat Rothschild. Senior figures have told Mr Osborne personally that he had been "ill advised" to brief against Lord Mandelson on his return from the Rothschild villa in Corfu this summer. The London Evening Standard reported today that Mr Osborne attacked Mr Davis during a conversation with Lord Mandelson, claiming that he had failed to fully back the leadership's modernisation of the Tory party. George Osborne 'criticised David Davis in a conversation with Peter Mandelson'