
Will Tanner: Covid and vaccines. Imagine what would have happened if we’d junked intervention – and opted instead for laissez faire.
The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
Our five year electoral cycle is driving MPs to compete for short-term green subsidies without questioning the medium-term consequences.
This is not to say that all of Dodds’ analysis is coherent or correct, but the days of unhinged Corbynite attacks on capitalism are over.
Government sometimes treats the constraints fatalistically, rather than seeing them as a problem that prices, incentives, and regulations could affect.
The emergency measures enacted to battle Covid have exposed the groupthink of Whitehall’s expert establishment.
It might seem far-fetched that one could face jail for eating steak frites. But one could have said the same about not eating at least a scotch egg with your pint.
The Government can do a lot in a short space of time. A key question should be: how do we make these towns nicer places to live?
MPs need to see the regulations as well as economic and health impact assessments before deciding if they will support the new tiers, she says.
Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.
She attacks the Government for giving employers less than six hours’ notice that the furlough scheme was being extended.
The Bolton Council leader says he knows virus rates in the North are high, but he calls for an exit package from restrictions.
Further measures are needed to deal with the virus, and there must be more support for business, he says.
People feel the Government has not just abandoned communities [in the North], but is now actively working against them, she says.
We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.
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.