Labour’s confused moral crusade

Labour's attempts to prove it can govern more ethically than the Tories have back-fired. Emily Hohler reports.

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A perception is building that Labour has had a "breakthrough week", says Dan Hodges in The Daily Telegraph. Or rather, a "breakdown week" for the Tories. The HSBC scandal merged in the public consciousness with the Black and White Ball, the annual Conservative fundraiser ("Porn barons. Shady financiers. Hedge fund kings", according to the Daily Mail).

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.