Harriett Baldwin MP has become the poster child of the IFA community since forcing the first debate on the RDR in Westminister. In an exclusive interview with IFAonline, she gives her views on the FSA, qualifications and that McDonald's comment...
Why call the RDR debate now? The new influx of Conservative ministers bring in new backgrounds from which to take up the cudgels for our constituents. I was only elected in May but I have been pushing this issue for years and was quite astonished there had never been a debate on the RDR before. I wrote to Andrew Tyrie MP about it when he first became chair of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) to ask him to raise the issue. I have been overwhelmed by the response form the public after this week's debate. Mark Hoban MP (Finance Secretary to the Treasury) has been heavily critici...
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