The changing global landscape should refocus our policy on the factors that are need to improve the investment outlook – such as sound macro polices and the level, predictability and simplicity of tax.
The sad truth is that if the Confederation of British Industry did not exist, we would have to invent it.
This imbalance in job security, income and pension provision is a glaring reality that too often goes unmentioned, and should be a priority and powerful mobilising cause for the Conservative Party.
Prior to Covid, its uptake amongst businesses has been very limited. We cannot make Britain a science superpower if the practice is allowed to become routine.
Combined with windfall taxes on both fossil fuel and renewable energy generation, Britain’s business tax regime is getting less, not more, competitive.
At long last, as an independent nation once again, we have the power to eliminate the EU’s one-size-fits-all hulk, and replace it with acommon sense alternative that is tailored to the needs of our businesses and our culture.
The legislation has damaging structural flaws to the economy, is holding back UK businesses, and punishing the flexible workforce.
We don’t have time to waste. During 2025 and 2026 the TCA, the UK/EU fisheries agreement, the EU’s decision on UK data adequacy and its current policy on derivatives trading all come up for review.
Jeremy Hunt should be finding ways to encourage businesses to launch and grow in the United Kingdom, not squeezing them out.
We might get the most optimal outcomes from the Independent Net Zero Review by extracting the best of it and focusing our efforts. Let’s prioritise those priorities.
There is next to no support among its ranks in the Commons for more immigration, liberalising planning law and improving access to European markets.
Commentators focus their attention on the Red or Blue walls, but the Conservatives shouldn’t turn their backs on the green bridge of voters in both camps, especially when we have a strong record on climate and the environment.
The shift to subsidies is more than the timely, targeted and temporary measures that we saw during the pandemic, and signifies a bigger change in global public policy.
The billionaires get the significance of Space – and regard their activities as some eccentric self-indulgence is to fail to grasp what they are really up to.
We need Universal Enterprise, a relaunch of the Enterprise Allowance scheme targeted at women, to bring down our unusually high level of female economic inactivity.