Wonks at the CPS get feisty, a CEO under citizen’s arrest and a scrimping Tooth Fairy; catch up on the latest City drama in this week’s edition of The Capitalist

CPS WONKS: HELL YES, WE’RE TOUGH ENOUGH

Kemi Badenoch was interrupted by demands to “banish billionaires” during her keynote speech at the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Conference this week. As one attendee remarked “What makes them think there are any billionaires left?”. Having held the audience in suspense for 15 minutes while tech support fiddled with her autocue, Badenoch dealt with the disruption with aplomb, saying that the incident proved why it was still important to honour Thatcher as the leader who “saved the country from that lot”. The intruders were swiftly tackled by CPS staff who, though more accustomed to studying graphs and drafting economic reports, declared themselves “tough on........

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