The TIGGR document on regulation published today focuses on playing to our strengths in the highest growing sectors of tomorrow.
It’s hard to think that the right future is to be a less research-intensive country than the rest of the world, and so I hope our commitment will endure.
The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.
The third 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.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
As the short-term economy comes under immense strain, we should support the UK’s biggest single long-term investment.
Consequently, our third and most important priority is the vigorous pursuit of growth – set our country on a path of solid and sustained expansion.
We have the mandate and the majority. Let’s make 2020 a year of progress and work now to set up a decade we can all be proud of.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
“Today over half of the UK’s resident researcher population were born overseas. When we leave the European Union, I will ensure that does not change.”
As I set out in my report, my challenge to the NHS is to move all GP surgeries and hospitals from being paper-first to digital-first organisations over the next 10 years.
Free enterprise has huge benefits. But more than that, it is intensely democratic, open and diverse – breaking down monopolies, hierarchies and outdated practices.
The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.
At the heart of the Midlands Engine’s strategy is a desire to collaborate, particularly in sectors vital to the low carbon transition.