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Posts by Bim Afolami MP

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Bim Afolami: The Chancellor has struck the right balance on easing energy bills

The package isn’t about permanent intervention in the market. It’s smoothing the edges of a particularly sharp adjustment in family budgets.

Comment | By Bim Afolami MP | 4 February 2022 at 11:00 am

Bim Afolami: So you want to be an MP? Here are six perspectives on what it’s like – and what to do.

Most importantly, remember this. Keep going through all the disappointments. It is the most interesting job you are ever going to have.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 13 December 2021 at 6:20 am

Bim Afolami: Get ready for interest rates to rise – with all the shock to homeowners, families and borrowers that will follow

We should never forget the millions of people who are “just about managing” – they will find it harder to budget over the next few months.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 29 November 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: The Government is close to losing the benefit of the doubt

We need a mid-term review that is honest about the after-effects of Covid – and where we now find ourselves.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 15 November 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: After the Budget, we won’t deliver levelling up without putting economic growth first

Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 1 November 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: MPs’ plight. Trolls, terrorists and thugs account for much of it. But some our problems are of our own making.

We need to stand up for the value of Parliament and of spending time there improving and working on legislation.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 18 October 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: After the reshuffle, back to the future – NHS queues, rising energy bills, and higher prices

For all the focus elsewhere, the most important domestic department for the next two years will be the Department of Health.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 20 September 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: Working from home means a radical culture shift – and it’s here to stay. Here are some of the consequences.

We know how difficult it was to lose millions of manufacturing jobs – let us beware of inadvertently accelerating the same process for services jobs.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 6 September 2021 at 6:30 am

America 1) Bim Afolami: Yes, the United States is withdrawing from its role abroad. So we need to reinvigorate our alliances.

We need to rethink our foreign policy not in the world we would like, but in the world we actually live in.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 23 August 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: Five books to read over the summer recess

Reading and reflection really helps me get a perspective on what is going on, whether in my own constituency or in the country more broadly.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 9 August 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: The Olympic model of spotting and developing talent should be applied to academia

We need to focus on developing our brightest and most talented people, in a range of different fields, from a young age.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 26 July 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: The big question facing Johnson. What does fiscal conservatism mean in an age of the big state?

My view is that the only way to help square this circle is to rediscover our concern for public service reform.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 12 July 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: What southern MPs in traditionally Tory seats should learn from Northern ones in the former Red Wall

MPs are starting to think of their seats in the context of their wider area, rather than simply as safe or marginal.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 28 June 2021 at 6:30 am

Bim Afolami: The Government’s Net Gain initiative will be transformative – but its implementation must be sped up

By all indications, we are about to voluntarily delay this policy, which risks the destruction of 19,288 ha of habitat.

Comment | By Bim Afolami MP | 17 June 2021 at 11:30 am

Bim Afolami: The politics of Net Zero are more perilous than we think

It won’t be sufficient to cover the costs just for the lowest income voters – most voters will need environmentally sustainable options to be heavily subsided.

Columnists, Highlights | By Bim Afolami MP | 14 June 2021 at 6:30 am

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