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Philippa Stroud: So you wanted an impact assessment of the effects of lockdown, restrictions – and of Covid itself? Here it is.

The Legatum Institute has this week published a methodology for one. We don’t claim that it has all the answers, but it does offer a guide to hard policy choices.

By Philippa Stroud | 18 December 2020 at 6:20 am | 15 comments

Down with equality, up with opportunity

The test of Truss’s big speech today on fairness will be whether it opens up a path to reforming Labour’s Equality Act.

By Paul Goodman | 17 December 2020 at 6:50 am | 65 comments

Roderick Crawford: Brexit and trade. What we are and aren’t committed to in order to help bring about a level playing field

The Political Declaration approves non-regression but not dynamic alignment – elements of which the EU has backed off from.

By Roderick Crawford | 17 December 2020 at 6:30 am | 20 comments

Garvan Walshe: This week’s Israel-Morocco deal. A consolation gift for Trump…and a strategic win for China.

The agreement involves revising an international border – opposed in this case by the EU and the UK. It will have knock-on effects elsewhere.

By Garvan Walshe | 17 December 2020 at 6:20 am | 8 comments

Johnson’s Brexit journalism and Brexit politics are of a piece: in both he thrives by infuriating the Establishment

Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.

By Andrew Gimson | 16 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 66 comments

Mark Lehain: The end of unconscious bias training and Truss’s coming speech on equality – signs of a Ministerial anti-woke fightback.

They’re part of a broader move by the Government to rein in some of the more extreme politically correct excesses that went unchecked before.

By Mark Lehain | 16 December 2020 at 6:30 am | 34 comments

Robert Halfon: Our national catchphrase this year is four simple words – “You are on mute”

Some of us have taken up central casting from The Truman Show – being ogled, googled, zoomed, teamed and even on the odd occasion ‘citrixed’.

By Robert Halfon MP | 16 December 2020 at 6:20 am | 5 comments

Why Conservative backbench resistance to the Government’s Covid strategy may be fading away

Five reasons why Hancock’s announcement of tougher restrictions yesterday met less resistance than might have been expected.

By Paul Goodman | 15 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 92 comments

The Moggcast: Might a Bill to enact a Brexit trade deal pass through Parliament in 24 hours?

Our subject on how much time a Bill would be given now, how much time it might get – and whether it could be effected retrospectively.

15 December 2020 at 6:30 am | 46 comments

Gerard Fox & Martin Smith: How a sunset clause could break the logjam in the Brexit trade talks

Disputes should be arbitrated by representatives of neutral countries that have experience of trading with the EU under different arrangements.

By Gerard Fox and Martin Smith | 15 December 2020 at 6:20 am | 28 comments

The biggest decision has already been taken. We have left the EU. So let’s treat whatever comes next as an opportunity.

If no good deal comes and No Deal happens, the option of a return to EU membership is no longer on the table.

By Paul Goodman | 14 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 82 comments

John Redwood: Why we would be better off with No Deal

Here’s how can now use our freedoms as we leave – assuming there is no last-minute wish to be sensible by the EU and agree a free trade deal.

By Sir John Redwood MP | 14 December 2020 at 6:30 am | 132 comments

Neil O’Brien: How can we make the economy grow faster?

The big questions are about an EU deal and Covid recovery. But one of the other places to look is how we turn our savings into investments.

By Neil O Brien MP | 14 December 2020 at 6:20 am | 15 comments

The real deadline for the Brexit trade talks is December 31

But unless we are viewing a conjuring trick both from our own Government and the EU, extra time looks unlikely to unlock agreement.

By Paul Goodman | 13 December 2020 at 7:00 am | 124 comments

Rob Sutton: Government needs advisers. But advisers need competition – not their present monopoly.

The emergency measures enacted to battle Covid have exposed the groupthink of Whitehall’s expert establishment.

By Dr Rob Sutton | 13 December 2020 at 6:30 am | 24 comments

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