The regeneration will create 25,000 permanent jobs and homes for 20,000 people, all in less than a square mile. Astonishingly, Wandsworth’s new Labour-run Council boycotted last week’s opening.
The effect of benefit policy changes on the incomes of working-age adults and children since 2010 has been an average loss of £375 per year compared with a boost to pensioners of £510 per year.
Businesses and employees are only responding to monetary conditions set by the Bank of England, where the real responsibility lies.
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In future, the economy may run into inflation bottlenecks earlier in economic recoveries than before, thus constraining growth.
There is a lot of rhetoric about boosting vocational training, but we need to do more to deliver it in practice.
Securing Freeport status has meant thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of pounds of inward investment.
That only 31 per cent of Foreign Office officials are venturing in to work whilst there is a war in Ukraine should be an object of serious concern.
A key economic problem during the 1980s was union power. Now it is weak incentives to move and retrain.
Unemployment is back below its pre-pandemic level. But the rising cost of living limits the upsides.
If the war lasts a few years at most, the Chancellor can take the hit. If it’s a new normal that lasts for decades, the outlook is grim.
Our troubles will be compounded by Ministers’ import promotion policies, most pronounced in the Business, Energy and Agriculture departments.
What turns young people away from the Conservatives isn’t more education. It’s the retreat of the property-owning democracy.
Better integration with academic courses, more employer involvement, and a clearer balance between local and national oversight would all help.
Employers are increasingly resorting to digital tracking to monitor people working from home. It poses real risks.