It’s not surprising that I do things differently, since I came to the role from a business background, rather than via the world of politics.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
McDonnell wanted a state-run pharmaceutical industry. So now we will never know how it would got on with producing Covid vaccines.
Before pumping more funding into the public sector, we must restore the habit of making sure we have the money in the bank before we start spending it.
The final article in ConHome’s series on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
The Government will need to think carefully about how any change to policy is presented, and the approach should be nuanced and flexible.
Downing Street itself has been driving the moonshot, working with scientists, laboratories, companies and deliverers: a new operational system, in short.
This ambitious business case is based on our experiences not only of recovering from the last downturn, but on the successes of the last three years.
Investors should create new homes – in an economies-of-scale dozen at a time, and lease a whole care package to local authorities.
Reshaping Whitehall must be sanctioned by the Prime Minister, but he can empower the Government’s proven reformer, Michael Gove, to drive change.
When used against an indiscriminate shock like the Coronavirus, it can become a huge weight on the private sector.
The fifth piece in our series this week about what the Tory Manifesto should look like.
The Neoliberal Manifesto, a joint project between the Adam Smith Institute and 1828, champions an approach based on freedom, markets and choice.
The first of a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about the most distinctive of the Prime Minister’s big aims.