A Cheaper Route To Net-Zero
Families and businesses are facing enormous energy bills that are much higher than they should be, because of clunky old rules about how power is generated, regulated, traded, stored and transmitted. There is plenty of debate over cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment but not enough of a conversation about how to lower bills across the board. This paper gives 20 low-cost, no-regrets ways to decarbonise the electricity system.
Fixing the Carbon Leak
Net Zero is turning decarbonisation into deindustrialisation, by closing UK manufacturing and moving emissions to less-green foreign factories instead of reducing them overall. Fixing The Carbon Leak proposes a cheaper, more effective & better way for us to reach Net Zero, which makes our exporters more internationally competitive and cuts domestic energy or fuel bills too.
The Unfinished Revolution
18 months after he produced Power To The People for Rishi Sunak, John went back to gauge Government progress implementing his proposed reforms (about half of them, including his central proposal for the Digital Markets, Competition & Consumer Act 2024 had been introduced by then) and to update his recommendations as a result.
Poverty Trapped
Poverty Trapped outlines social reforms to equip more people to live proudly independent lives, by smashing the glass ceilings and narrow gates which currently ensure that – while talent is equally distributed across all parts of the country – life-chances and the skills which equip people to grasp them successfully are not
Power To The People
In September 2020 Rishi Sunak (then the Chancellor of the Exchequer) commissioned John to propose new laws to make UK businesses and exporters more internationally competitive, and cut consumer rip-offs too.
Standards In Public Life
In these personal letters to the Committee On Standards In Public Life and to the Foreign Secretary John argues for reforms to deliver cleaner Government, business and public services in both the UK and internationally too.
A Shining City Upon A Hill
Britain’s economy isn’t working properly anymore. In the wake of the 2008 banking crash, and in the face of new digital challenges and disruptive technologies, it simply isn’t delivering the goods. Wage growth has been anaemic for most of us, while a few have become extraordinarily rich.
Time to Think Big
Britain needs a Sovereign Wealth Fund to fix long-term economic problems with low savings rates and over-dependence on foreign investors, and to recapitalise our welfare state to cope with the demographic time bomb of an ageing population too.
The Great Rebalancing
Brexit created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset and recast the Government rules which dictate what kind of society and economy Britain will be.
We Deserve Better
Our utility firms provide us all with the unglamorous but necessary products which we need to live in the modern world; essential things like energy (electricity and gas) and water, as well as almost-essentials like bank accounts and telephones too.
Better Regulation
The exponential increase in regulation has not only hit businesses (particularly small businesses), but it has also increased the bureaucratic burden on individuals, charities, public bodies and social enterprises.