“You can trust me to do what it takes. The status quo is not an option. That is why we can’t give in to the voices of decline.”
Liberalisations of land-use planning, infrastructure, energy, and childcare rules are crucial to improve economic mobility, deepen our domestic market, and raise productivity.
Outsourcing to arms-length groups and insufficient departmental reviews have created a democratic deficit.
It has real democratic authority including with the Lords which might not be so inhibited from voting down new measures which didn’t feature in that manifesto.
High-performing settings should be given greater leeway to experiment with different arrangements – flexibility is key.
As one Cabinet Minister put it to me recently, the Treasury has never been interested in growth, just in collecting taxes.
But without a clear green direction of travel across all these policies, there could be negative political consequences
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
It won’t fix the problem on its own, but this is an opportunity to drive through worthwhile reform.
The exorbitant cost of raising a family has deep structural causes, but Johnson doesn’t operate on such terms.
Critics have a point when they note that, so far, Ministers’ rhetoric has been appreciably more ambitious than its actions.
Having entered Parliament from business, I know first-hand that prosperity is not created by government.
Now that we are hopefully returning to something approaching normality, we must focus back on the core issue of driving growth and investment.
The first of a series of five articles on ConservativeHome this week about the main challenges that await the new Prime Minister.