Problems and risks such as the significant rise in online scams haven’t yet been adequately addressed.
What we need is to promote a higher wage, higher productivity economy. Our economic targets should reflect those aims.
The D10 presents an opportunity for coordinating democracies around goals of combating climate change while securing supply chains.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
We need to have a debate about which taxes are least damaging to economic growth. Over the long term, corporation tax ranks as being one of the worst.
Research indicates that over half of customer-facing staff have experienced abuse from customers since the pandemic began.
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
America’s result is having knock-on effects in Downing Street: see yesterday’s green speech and today’s defence news.
It doesn’t make grand predictions about what will work or what we should do. It just prices in the ‘bad’ – in this case, emissions.
Plus: On Last Night of the Proms, I get in touch with my inner Farage. And: On Brexit, it’s crunch time as the end of transition approaches.
Aggressive and intimidating enforcement plagued our system long before Covid: now is not the time to cross our fingers and hope that this might change.
I, for one, see this new Commission as further evidence that the Government will take expert advice that benefits farmers and consumers.
Now that we are hopefully returning to something approaching normality, we must focus back on the core issue of driving growth and investment.