Step one is to build market confidence, which means a realistic plan to balance the deficit across the economic cycle. Actually, step one is probably to build public support for a government which ca… (View Post)

Strictly speaking that’s the BoE’s job. The question for Starmer come 24 will be, will the market accept his investment plans, which for now at least, are based on similar borrowing assumptions to Tr… (View Post)

Britain pretty much the weakest, worst funded local government in the OECD. Again, a sane government would be looking at this as a growth measure. But Tories are instinctively against decentralisatio… (View Post)

As you say, won’t happen. Single market re-entry? Won’t happen. Planning reform? Won’t happen. Britain is the won’t happen nation. One day, possibly in around 2040, Britain will become dimly aware th… (View Post)

It seems to me that the biggest anti-growth coalition is the Conservative Party. They are the party of rentierism, barriers to trade, low investment, and picking the pockets of the economically produ… (View Post)