Tax credits, regulation, EU requirements – all help to explain why employment has risen but output has fallen outside the manufacturing sector, at least per person.
Yes, it is essential to make some reforms. But others can be made without it – and here are nine examples.
Red tape and taxation has caused thousands of pubs to close.
And it won’t even work in its own terms. What on earth is a Conservative-led Government doing in introducing such half-baked proposals?
The FCA has insulated its future size by creating 16 handbooks of “Conduct” which stretch to over four million words.
We have moved a long way from NEDS concentrating on the interests of shareholders and helping to take executive decisions.
With India’s imports from Germany coming in at almost double Britain’s, William Hague and George Osborne must make the most of this week.
After last week’s results, the public will expect all UK MEPs to get behind the Prime Minister’s plan.
Or: Why I regard myself as a “mercantilist free trader”.
Mike Penning should put his own house in order
Plus: The Telegraph’s war on Nadine. Bias at the Foreign Office. Euro-rules drive me bonkers. And: Cameron’s LadyShambles.
The mistake of the right has been implicitly to accept that protecting our environment is in opposition to achieving a prosperous and free society.
This is the first parliament in modern history with a lower burden of regulations at the end of it than at the start.