No, it isn’t racism. Nor is it economic consequences. Nor even the impact on
public services. Rather, it cuts to the heart of why countries exist at all.
We need sectoral centres of excellence that strengthen our economy, create higher wage jobs and help us trade across the globe.
They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.
Quietly, public support for getting on with delivering Leave will continue to swell.
The Centre for Social Justice, which I am now chairing once again, is turning its attention to the quality of growth and jobs.
Circumstances dictate a suck-it-and-see Autumn Statement – but also one that can transcend its own caution by pointing to a visionary landscape ahead.
The second piece in our mini-series on the Autumn Statement, which takes place a week from today.
She needs the larger majority that a poll would deliver if she is to achieve her programme at a time of pre-Brexit turbulence.
It is not so much a location where goods and services can be sold, but rather a system of political control.
The politicised forecasts issued in the referendum campaign need to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt.
It’s time to defend and promote the ideas that have helped to bring globalisation – and in turn brought more wealth, peace and opportunity to billions of people.
There has been huge investment in physical capital. But meanwhile, the effort to revitalise our human capital has been fragmented, centralised and half-hearted.
There is a trade-off between the long-term interest of the economy and the short-term interest of many Leave voters.
You don’t have to like its architecture to recognise the success of its development