The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
Plus: The Government will soon have to set out the tough decisions on public spending to constituents.
Conservative messaging implies an implicit belief that there are no major state functions ripe for reform in any fiscal repair.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
Perhaps the simplest way of putting it is: it’s all about economic credibility, stupid. Because come 2024, it certainly will be.
We need to have a debate about which taxes are least damaging to economic growth. Over the long term, corporation tax ranks as being one of the worst.
There’s huge scope to enhance the City, and the British economy – especially if we learn the right lessons from Thatcher-era reforms.
From January 1, no longer will anyone be able to say: “you can’t – EU rules”. We have jumped from the passenger seat to the pilot seat. So what should we do?
The sheer speed of vaccine invention and deployment marks a political win for him as well as a British triumph.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
Johnson and Cummings’ previous assaults on the pre-Brexit order have been brilliantly conceived. This one may not be up to the same standard.
They followed the guidance from Sir Nicholas Winton: “if it is not impossible, there must be a way to do it”.
His columns from The Times are informed by his experience of what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t work.
Any new system should direct incentives towards rewarding those who step down to retirement accommodation and those cared for by their descendants.