While pubs and restaurants are happy with the Government’s latest move, there has been backlash from the sports industry.
The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.
Labour productivity is just about the worst way of analysing the impact of the last recession and Britain’s subsequent recovery
It isn’t only genes or property that get passed from generation to generation. More important than either of those are values.
Largely unreported by the London media, power is being devolved through the City Deals programme, for which Greg Clark is responsible.
There are 158 constituencies in the North of England. Just 43 of them returned a Conservative MP at the last general election. By way of comparison, Labour took just ten of the 197 constituencies in the South of England outside London. We could comfort ourselves with the thought that Labour has the bigger problem, but […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. It won’t come as any surprise that a leftwing firebrand like Owen Jones doesn’t think much of Government policy. More surprising though is his take on Labour Party policy: “Labour’s current muddled message would take several confusing paragraphs, […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. There’s was something odd about the clash between Ed Miliband and David Cameron at last week’s PMQs. The exchange opened with a question about the final report of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. This wasn’t surprising as the […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. Last week, I spoke at the Future of Regional Banking conference in Gateshead. Organised by Hexham MP Guy Opperman, it was a superb event – and I was delighted to be part of something that combines the two […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. While they’re still in office, it is the fate of most governments to get the least credit for their biggest achievements. That’s because, with few exceptions, the most important reforms that a government can undertake are those whose […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. Many things have been said about Ed Balls’ big speech on the economy – most of them including words like “hypocrisy” and “chutzpah”. Certainly, it takes some brass neck to complain about the deficit that a supposed Labour […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. What could be more conservative than the principle and practice of insurance? Long before the advent of the welfare state, people were banding together to protect themselves against catastrophe and to make long-term provision for the future. In […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. Three weeks ago I wrote about Labour’s refusal to say whether they would borrow beyond the Government’s plans or not. As I said, this is an extremely basic question about economic policy – and the Official Opposition really ought […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. As usual, almost all of the coverage of last week’s local elections was about national not local politics. So, once again, the huge contribution that local government makes to this country was all but overlooked. Amid the ongoing […]
Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. The success of Britain’s financial services industry matters to all of us. Together with the associated business services sector, it employs two million people up and down the country. Furthermore, it contributes one pound out of every eight of all the taxes paid in Britain. That […]