The idea that being in a Customs Union with the EU is going to unleash economic growth is, I am afraid, fantasy economics. The received wisdom in some quarters that Brexit has been a complete failure is also fantasy. Yes, our politicians could do far more to benefit from the freedoms they now have, but […]
03 July 2025 Rt.Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 1AA. Dear Prime Minister, Thank you for your letter of 5 June, attached, responding to my letter of 14 March. I regret to say that despite what you say in your second paragraph, that you are committed to
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The United States has implemented substantial tariffs on Chinese imports, and is discovering just how dangerously dependent it has become on products from that country. We in the West naively believe that dealing with China is like dealing with another western country, this could not be further from the truth. China is an autocratic single-party state,
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14 March 2025, Rt.Hon Sir Kier Starmer MP, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 1AA. Dear Prime Minister, We all want economic growth but as shown by the latest GDP figures the country is going in the wrong direction. Businesses like this one are the beating heart of Britain’s economy, it
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10 January 2025, Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Prime Minister, MHCLG 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF Dear Ms Rayner, You and your colleague, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, are bringing forward Bills defining in law what you believe are greater rights for employees. You seem to be under
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30 December 2024, Rt. Hon. Rachel Reeves, HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road Westminster London SW1A 2HQ Dear Ms Reeves, During the recent election campaign, you said that you would make Britain the most attractive country to do business in and that economic growth was your priority. Though many of us are not
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As a country, our GDP per capita has been virtually static for a number of years now. Overall, GDP has increased slowly – thanks to the immigration-lead population growth, rather than an improvement in productivity. We hear the cry from politicians of all colours that we need to “grow the economy”, which is the most
(Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor / Treasury, OGL 3 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3>, via Wikimedia Commons) You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot strengthen the week by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down…. (Abraham Lincoln) Money was created as a
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The humiliation of the Conservative Party at the recent general election provides the opportunity for a fundamental refresh of what the party stands for, and the purpose of its existence. The most important element of any political party is its membership. This is the soul of the party; holders of the core values from which
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As you may remember when I discovered that our beloved Conservative Government had decided to make it a criminal offence, punishable by a £5000 fine or six months in prison, to own one or more unregistered hens, I said that I could not support the Conservative party in the forthcoming election. At one point I determined
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