The fundamental problem is that costs are going up faster than we are getting more productive.
New schemes will deliver on many fronts: income opportunities for farmers, a more resilient food system, and a healthy natural environment for us all.
Lumping more onto the UK’s tax burden – already at the highest sustained level seen in peacetime – cannot be the answer.
Gove is ready to localise as much either as he wants to or as his colleagues will let him, or both. I hope it’s work in progress.
Our columnist provides the third piece in our series this week about Brexit – almost a year since the end of transition.
We are the party of mobility and enterprise. But we are also the party of community and belonging. What is it to be – roots or wings?
Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.
Pay is a business cost and, in reaction, profit-seeking firms will raise prices, cut worker benefits, slash services, or leave the sector if profits are squeezed.
Essentially, the Solvency 2 regulations make it difficult for our pensions and insurance firms to invest in long-term, secure, fixed assets in the UK.
The Government’s planning proposals haven’t even gone out to consultation yet – and everyone knows that the current system’s broken.
It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper.
The National Prosperity Plan has five core areas to boost the country’s economic recovery and future.
It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
Providing small businesses with technology and training will accelerate our recovery from Coronavirus.
Building up economic resilience will be necessary for a successful response to Brexit, Covid recovery and the transition to Net Zero.