Yesterday our Prime Minister wrote in the newspaper of record that he will ‘kick down the barriers to building, clear out the regulatory weeds and allow a new era of British growth to bloom’. The Chancellor of the Exchequer later stood in front of a TV camera and promised ‘to grow the supply-side of our […]
The Chancellor’s big growth speech on Wednesday morning was so widely trailed that it contained few surprises. But it was still the clearest and most coherent statement of her economic philosophy and plans so far. Before diving into the detail, it is only fair to welcome the change of tone. It has been refreshing to […]
With a healthy majority in Parliament, what’s stopping Britain’s Government from enacting the kind of sweeping policy changes we’re seeing in the United States? Michael Binyon from The Times and the National Review Institute’s Dominic Pino share their insights, plus: will tariffs force Putin’s hand in Ukraine? And how can we restore consumer optimism in […]
Winslow, a market town in Buckinghamshire, will be connected to the national rail network for the first time in 57 years when the western stage of East West Rail opens later this year. With easy connections to well-paying jobs in Oxford and Milton Keynes, the new railway will improve the lives of the town’s residents. […]
‘Nimby Watch’ is back with a new author, and in this week’s edition we’re off to Camberwell in south-east London, where Sadiq Khan is trying to extend the Bakerloo line… Where are we this time, then? Burgess Park, Deptford, and a few other areas of south-east London not currently served by the underground. So, we’re […]
What a week. Donald Trump has returned to the White House promising a new golden age for America, and issued a blizzard of executive orders that are shaking both America’s domestic order and the international system. In Britain, meanwhile, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have leaned into their pro-growth rhetoric: promising to expand Heathrow, tackle […]
Rachel Reeves needs the economy to grow faster if she’s to get in the taxes required to make her spending plans sustainable. Hence why the Government is in the market for growth-stimulating ideas. I’ve offered long lists of those in the past, both in general and those consistent with a left-wing philosophy, and don’t intend […]
There’s something of a hunt going on for sources of possible growth in the British economy. The usual suspects are insisting that if government just borrowed more, taxed more and spent more, then all would be copacetic. As Jeremy Warner points out, with debt now running at over 100% of GDP, and taxation as high […]
As part of its mission to drive up living standards, the Government wants to put more money in people’s pockets in every part of the UK. This is quite some task. For a long time, pockets in some parts of the country have substantially more money in them, and greater potential to add more than […]
If you watched Peaky Blinders on Netflix, you might remember the charming Victorian village where Aunt Polly’s house was set. Those scenes were filmed in Port Sunlight, an iconic community near Liverpool inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement. Built by Lever Brothers, the precursor to Unilever, it offered vernacular-style housing to soap factory workers. […]
The Government’s response to the AI Opportunities Action Plan is an ambitious declaration of intent, laying out the foundations for the UK’s leadership in AI. It is a rare instance of bold policymaking and, for the Labour Government, it represents a much-needed triumph. But its success will depend on execution, bold thinking and a willingness […]
Britain is in a growth emergency – and it’s time we faced up to it. Energy costs are skyrocketing, infrastructure building moves at the pace of rush-hour traffic and our productivity lags so far behind the likes of France and the US that we’re practically begging Mississippi not to overtake us – oh wait, they […]
In this debut edition of The Capitalist: a bold new political movement takes aim at red tape to get Britain building, the Chancellor faces criticism over an economy teetering on the edge and the Conservatives grapple with the path to reinvention. With Dr Lawrence Newport and Joseph Dinnage. Find out more about Looking for Growth by visiting […]
Don’t panic! The pound may have plummeted. Government borrowing costs may have hit their highest level in thirty years. The Chancellor may be out of the country cosying up to China. But she has asked her Cabinet colleagues to come up with fresh ideas to boost growth. She’s even told them firmly to ‘cease anti-growth […]
What would you like your government to do, above all, for you? Well, yes, safe streets, a predictable and peaceful future, fairness and the like, but above all, most people would like a return to the compact between government and population that existed in the 20th century, of steadily rising wages and wealth for each […]
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