The importance of competitive taxes cannot be understated. And retaining high standards is not incompatible with growth.
Even with an insurance policy, I’ve been astonished by how difficult it is to get a replacement phone.
Brexit doesn’t just allow the City to make its regulatory regime more competitive; it obliges it to do so.
“I do”, he says, when Andrew Marr asks him who’s to blame – but he points out that London has had better uptake than other global cities.
The TIGGR document on regulation published today focuses on playing to our strengths in the highest growing sectors of tomorrow.
And we chat to the young waiter, the question I’m asking is: “why wait until young people are 22 for auto-enrolment to begin?”
A recent conversation with a delivery driver got me thinking about the way our media debates work.
The Government got “Brexit done” – and now wants to deliver on its pledge to spread “opportunity across the whole United Kingdom”.
We might expect cultural vandalism from Lambeth Council. It is a shock to see it in the Square Mile.
It’s better equipped than London to sympathise with the economic realities of what is going on in cities far closer.
These institutions play a vital role – despite what commentators, and sometimes politicians, say.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
If it is determined to thumb its nose at the attitudes of the majority, perhaps it would be better to take this cultural revolution to its logical conclusion.
The first piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.
Our exit from the EU should allow fresh thinking and a new regulatory approach – to allow the UK to reach its full economic potential.