1924 City of London by-election 1924 City of London by-election The City of London by-election, 1924 was a parliamentary by-election held on 1 February 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district. The seat had become vacant on the elevation to the peerage of one of the constituency's two Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs), Sir Frederick Banbury, as Baron Banbury of Southam. Banbury had held the seat since a 1906 by-election, following his defeat at Peckham in the 1906 general election. He had represented Peckham since 1892. The
The City: London and the Global Power of Finance The City: London and the Global Power of Finance The City: London and the Global Power of Finance is a 2016 book by British economist and former trader Tony Norfield, published by Verso Books. "The City" is an insider's account of the how the City, as London's financial centre is known, dominates international banking and foreign exchange and shapes global capital. Norfield spent twenty years as a senior trader in the financial district. He uses the inside knowledge to investigate the "role of the US dollar in global trading, the network of British-linked tax havens, the flows of finance around