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.
The online retail revolution has brought more convenience and lower prices to millions. Fighting it is an unworthy mission for a pro-consumer party.
We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.
Those who wish to wear fur and those who do not will both benefit from clearer labelling of fur products, backed up with stronger enforcement.
They are rated as the taxes which are most harmful to rates of enterprise, above all others. We would all gain from improving how they work.
Aggressive begging has discouraged people from visiting the town centre. The Labour Council has failed to deal with the problem.
We are re-proving that ‘we learn from history that we do not learn from history’.
We shouldn’t be glued as a vassal state to a declining European market.
It’s not just about Brexit – it’s deeper and longer-standing than that. Ironically, relations would improve if they each a bit more combative.
Saying “f**k business” is the kind of lack of understanding I’d expect from our Marxist-sympathising Shadow Chancellor – not from a Conservative Foreign Secretary.
“I think there will be a good deal, but I can’t pretend that there is a deal now that’s in our back pocket and we’re just going through the motions.”
What is wrong with our version of the systen is not that capitalists are ignoring the rules, it’s that the rules they are following are misspecified.
As the son of a plumber who ran his own local business for several decades, I know that such technical professions can be extremely rewarding.
As well as its historic links to this country, the island offers a solution-solving attitude and solid work ethic.
Prioritising large over small, or current businesses over future businesses, would hurt workers, consumers, taxpayers, investors and the nation.