
Tim Pilcher: How simple connectivity vouchers can empower Britain’s businesses right now
SMEs are facing unprecedented challenges. Faster internet speeds can make a great difference.
SMEs are facing unprecedented challenges. Faster internet speeds can make a great difference.
‘Peter Pans’ prefer to burn the candle at both ends. They are cicadas, not ants, but many would still love to raise a family.
Whether moderate right Conservative, or moderate left, austerity is dead, and this new age will be with us for a long time to come.
It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.
The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.
Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.
Labour’s broadband policy is not about investment in infrastructure, but about a revolution in content to shape our collective political culture.
I hope that we will see more of the Chancellor during the campaign explaining how his plans can help support investment to boost productivity.
The West Midlands provides a case study for the UK in how connectivity can transform an area by linking its communities, its geography, its businesses and its people.
They are chosen not from a factional or ideological standpoint, but from what I see while doing the job of Mayor.
Scrap HS2. Integrate social care. Abolish NI. Reverse police cuts. Consider a new Bill of Rights. And much, much more.
Despite our budget being cut, we have achieved bold reforms with libraries, children’s services, broadband roll out and business rates retention. We are open for business.
We must show people how markets can make life better for ordinary families by broadening choice, spurring innovation, and driving down prices.
I truly believe that this election will finally banish the tribal, class-driven polarisation of workers versus bosses. That rhetoric will be firmly placed in the dustbin of history.
There is still some way to go before we can be sure this is a truly new approach, and not a return to what has been tried before.