Tom Willerton-Gartside

Tom Willerton-Gartside is the Head of Press at Looking for Growth

Articles

The second staircase rule is pricing out a generation
Regulation

The second staircase rule is pricing out a generation

I’m 23. Like many of my friends, I endured the British education system all the way to university: GCSEs, A levels and then an undergraduate degree. Now, with little opportunity to progress in the small town we grew up in, those same friends are now looking to move to a city for work.  For some, […]

Net Zero is costing you a fortune. It doesn't have to
Energy & Environment

Net Zero is costing you a fortune. It doesn’t have to

Looking For Growth has launched the Emergency Energy Bill – a ready-made piece of legislation that the Government should pass tomorrow. But it won’t. Labour won’t take the radical action necessary to get bills down unless we force them to. This Government, just like many of its predecessors over the last thirty years, has prioritised […]

Policy

Britain’s broken courts are a betrayal of justice

Over 76,000 serious criminal cases are stuck in a court backlog. Of those cases, nearly a quarter have been in the queue for over a year. The wait to be heard in the magistrates’ court is even longer: 310,304 hearings were in abeyance at the end of March, equivalent to roughly three months at current […]