One group certainly took the advice I offered last month about doing more to connect with MPs and Parliament and it has paid off already.
IFAs up and down the country have been lobbying hard to bring MPs' attention their many concerns about the progress and implementation of the RDR. A few months ago you would have said they were wasting their time as all the arguments had been heard before and had failed to shift the FSA from its chosen course. A combination of IFA perseverance and a lot of new MPs still keen to engage with businesses in their constituencies has produced a result that few, including the FSA, expected: RDR back on the political agenda with the resultant pressure on the regulator to re-think some of its ...
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