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Wanted: Ideas For Economic Growth
When the Office for Budget Responsibility had finished grovelling and prostrating itself for leaking the entire Budget in advance, it made a genuinely eye-popping admission about what was actually in it. They said that, after they’d downgraded their growth forecasts…
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Why Britain Needs A Taxpayer Protection Act
Most UK families, business leaders and investors will spend the next month trying to ignore the ever-darkening economic clouds that are gathering in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ autumn Budget. Her problems have been mounting for months. First her…
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‘Smart data’ will boost UK growth, but Britain has to move faster
John gave the Keynote Speech at the London 2025 Smart Data Show, saying the UK has a world-leading position in growth-boosting Smart Data supply-side economic reforms, but that we need to move faster if we’re going to stay ahead of…
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The Case for a Public Productivity Act
Most Chancellors spend a lot of time peering nervously upwind to spot approaching economic storms and squalls, but Rachel Reeves won’t need a particularly strong telescope to pick out the procession of dark clouds that are heading her way. Some…
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The Case For A UK Sovereign Wealth Fund
The age of austerity is nearly over. After eight long years, we aren’t having to borrow to pay for day-to-day spending on essentials like health, education, policing or defence. It’s all funded by our taxes, at last. We’re paying our…
