The job now needs to be completed by shoring up workers’ incomes and firms’ revenues to as close to 100 per cent as is practical.
Many of these matters can only be made on the basis of imperfect information. The advantage of the elected official making the ultimate decision is one of accountability.
Withdrawal from the EU provides a necessity and an opportunity to illustrate that the UK is “open for business”.
One essential Bank of England chart illustrates what went wrong, beyond reasonable doubt.
Brussels gold-plates global standards, the Basel rules, and applies them to all banks of all sizes.
We should not be tied to rules that often apply extreme versions of the precautionary principle that throttle new developments.
Ultimately, the only way properly to determine the extent of both this and wider problems is through a full public inquiry.
Selling off the Royal Bank of Scotland without taking the chance to widen share ownership would be a wasted opportunity.
We must turbo-charge the vehicle of British entrepreneurship as we drive across the Brexit bridge which should connect us with the rest of the world.
The alarmism of Osborne and others has proved to be baseless – instead, our existing strengths in financial services position us to grow even stronger.
Thousands of businesses have suffered material harm as a result of sharp practice against which they have no recourse.
In the Financial Times, of all places, it emerges that predictions of Brexit disaster in the City were overblown.
EURATOM, WTO quotas, open skies agreements, banks’ ability to lend – all these involve change which it may not be possible to effect by April 2019.
The part of the country that is working well is the part that is not waiting for people in a risk-averse chain of centralised command to make a decision.