Patience Wheatcroft

Baroness Wheatcroft is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Her other articles for CapX can be found here.

Articles

Trade

Free trade with the US is a godsend for Europe

Trans-national trade is generally a force for good, fostering international relationships and generating wealth. There are, though, exceptional circumstances in which this is not the case. The slave trade, for instance, created huge prosperity for some but abject misery for others and, in some quarters, apologies are still being demanded for these past misdeeds. The […]

Competition

Government has no place in takeovers

Imagine that a certain Grantham grocer had decided to sell his business. His daughter would have not taken it well had a government official intervened and tried to prevent him, concerned perhaps that there would have been a threat to the employment prospects of a delivery boy or that the  purchaser might want to rationalise […]