The fundamental problem is that costs are going up faster than we are getting more productive.
Private industry will fund much of the digital infrastructure investment. To ensure that no community is left behind will require state intervention.
Gove is ready to localise as much either as he wants to or as his colleagues will let him, or both. I hope it’s work in progress.
The Environment Secretary joins our panel to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the Net Zero goal.
Now that we are hopefully returning to something approaching normality, we must focus back on the core issue of driving growth and investment.
Join the Environment Secretary and our expert panel for the first live online event of the year.
“Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain’s Potential” was the 2019 slogan. The first was achieved in short order. The second is yet to be delivered.
Control the controllables. So provide assistance, ease the pain, reverse the tax hikes, explain why – and focus on a pro-growth strategy.
Our columnist provides the third piece in our series this week about Brexit – almost a year since the end of transition.
At the heart of the Midlands Engine’s strategy is a desire to collaborate, particularly in sectors vital to the low carbon transition.
There should be a growth target to complement the inflation target – to drive government departments to take actions that will promote more UK activity and jobs.
Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.
Pay is a business cost and, in reaction, profit-seeking firms will raise prices, cut worker benefits, slash services, or leave the sector if profits are squeezed.
When he was Mayor of London, I outlined to Boris Johnson how we have the potential to become the largest economy in western Europe.
Lumping more onto the UK’s tax burden – already at the highest sustained level seen in peacetime – cannot be the answer.