“The problems faced by Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson – and indeed George Osborne and David Cameron – are different from the crises and challenges we face today.”
With the right policies, the Government would attract more of the world’s most imaginative and inventive scientists, helping them build their own businesses here in the UK.
It not only presents a growing opportunity to help provide more secure and clean electricity, heating and fuels but also offers a major source of new industrial growth.
That the UK is a leader in battery science is down to the last industrial strategy. The new industrial strategy could deliver an even greater prize.
We can avoid getting into an argument about whether or not the Government’s plan is an industrial strategy. The Conservative Party has got rather hung up on that term.
People need a sense of hope and optimism about their prospects. And one of the best ways for the new Prime Minister to deliver that credibly is indeed to show how they will grow the innovations which will make life better.
With the right policies to unlock investment, Drax can help make Britain a world-leader in this next-generation technology.
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces an uphill battle against entrenched attitudes in almost every relevant department.
David Skelton catalogues the snobbish abuse heaped by progressive intellectuals on workers in neglected towns.
A careful reading of Hayek and Adam Smith will confirm that neither was invariably opposed to state action.
There is a balance to strike between the statism of the post-War era and the full-blooded free market ideology of the 1980s.
It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
It contributes a tidy £6.75 billion in GVA to the national economy each year as a net contributor to Treasury coffers.
The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
The Tories of the 2030s will need to make a complete clean break with the 1980s. We can think new ideas – and return to older ones to conserve and protect the institutions that make up the social fabric of this country.