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Britain Needs A ‘Top 5 In 5’ Industrial Strategy, Not Bets On New Tech
This article is the first in a fortnightly series of policy proposals from John Penrose and the Centre for Small State Conservatives. Nobel-Prize-Winning economist Paul Krugman famously said “productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything.” His words should send…
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We don’t need to nationalise our railways to fix them
One of the new Labour Government’s first acts was to hand a big wedge of taxpayer cash to already well-paid train drivers, along with a promise of more as rolling rail renationalisation steadily tightens its grip over the next few years.…
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Reeves’ Welcome U-Turn on Cash ISAs
Good to see Rachel Reeves thinking better of cutting the amount people can save into cash ISAs to as little as £4,000, according to The Telegraph. She would have hung millions of savers out to dry if she’d gone ahead…
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Knowing ‘What Works’ Will Help Good Growth
Fed up with a Britain where nothing works anymore? This article for Academy of Social Sciences proposes a single, simple but fundamental change to Government procurement rules to start fixing the problem. John Penrose makes the case for stronger evaluation…
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How To Solve Britain’s Red Tape Crisis
Labour’s bonfire of the quangos is barely smouldering so far. The run-up to last month’s ‘Spring-Statement-that-honestly-wasn’t-an-Emergency-Budget’ included a big anti-red tape fanfare, with lots of worthy rhetoric about tackling bureaucratic complexity and regulatory risk-aversion. But it always starts this way,…
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Want better-behaved Tory MPs? Here’s how…..
This week saw the publication of Ungovernable, the diaries of former Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart. Here’s how to turn Conservative MPs into a team that’s not only governable, but ready to govern the country as well. Infighting, splits,“effing useless” Ministers…
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New Policy Thumbnail: Cheaper Energy
UK energy costs are already amongst the highest in the world and current Government policies will make them even more expensive; limit household choices (for example by forcing people to buy particular types of cars or home heating); and cost…
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Small-State Conservatives need to revive the mission to deliver supply-side reforms
Churchill is supposed to have said that America can usually be relied on to do the right thing, but only after they’ve tried everything else first. It’s a phrase that applies just as strongly to today’s Conservative Party as well.…
