Trades Union Congress boss Paul Nowak has been appointed by John Healey as a non-executive director on the Bank of England’s Court of Directors. Which functions as the bank’s board…
Nowak will contribute to the BoE’s “strategy, governance, budget and risk framework, and for ensuring the effective discharge of the Bank’s statutory functions.” The government said:
“Paul Nowak is General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress. The TUC represents 47 unions and 5.3 million workers in the UK. Paul has represented the TUC internationally at the International Labour Organisation, OECD and G20, and holds non-executive experience at Unity Trust Bank.”
Frances O’Grady was the last trade union baron to be in this position. The government’s press release says Nowak has “confirmed that they have not engaged in any party political activity in the last five years.” Roughly £30 million has been donated by trade unions to Labour centrally since 2021 and Nowak has spent the last four days loudly campaigning against Reform’s donations…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”