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John’s interview for the Popular Conservatives podcast
The Popular Conservatives are a new & fast-growing part of UK centre-right politics who, like us at the Centre for Small-State Conservatives, favour a smaller & more efficient state. So when they invited John to appear on their ‘PopConversation’ podcast,…
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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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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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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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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…
