Outsourcing the delicate work of threat detection to venues will do little good, whilst heaping fresh pressure on a struggling sector.
EU regulations and directives do form a major block of domestic law and do generate a lot of business costs. We know this because Whitehall’s own past internal audits have revealed it, a field I have been tracking since John Major’s day.
Years of talking loudly whilst carrying a small stick have left voters unwilling to give the Government the benefit of the doubt.
There is a good case for stronger regulation, perhaps even abolition. But a one-sided view of the rights and obligations of property isn’t it.
The best way to protect the small proportion who struggle is to guarantee a mature, well-regulated gaming sector.
Opposition by big business and other vested interests makes enacting pro-growth policies difficult but not impossible.
If our members are constricted further, with no freedom to compete and invest, it is not just they and their customers which will suffer. It will be the Treasury.
It isn’t perfect, but it now focuses on real harms to vulnerable people rather than dangerous attempts to police free speech amongst adults.
The second part of a mini-series on ConservativeHome this week about how the Government can help Britain’s economy to grow faster.
Expanding free support for the areas with the lowest birth rates, cutting bureaucracy, bolstering tenants’ rights, supporting cooperatives, and reforming regulation.
The aim should not be to have the government try to boost birth rates, but to remove barriers that impede families from making their own self-funded, preferred decisions.
Outsourcing to arms-length groups and insufficient departmental reviews have created a democratic deficit.
Our focus groups in Wakefield are a wake-up call for the Government: responsible adults neither want nor need nannying.
As one Cabinet Minister put it to me recently, the Treasury has never been interested in growth, just in collecting taxes.
Ease ratios for childminders, stop making small-time carers leap through educational hoops – and face up to the fact we need to build on greenfield sites.