Labour will introduce new laws against dishonest bankers, Cooper to say

Shadow home secretary to announce drive against 'murky' financial crime and criminalisation of its perpetratorsLegislation that would have ensured that the City traders behind the Libor interest rates scandal did not escape prosecution is to be promised by the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, on Wednesday.In her conference speech she will pledge that the next Labour government will introduce the first-ever Economic Crime Act in a drive against the "grey and murky area" of financial crime, i...