By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read JEREMY HUNT’S latest Budget misses the point and does not address the underlying declining competitiveness of the UK economy. It fails to address the root of the problem; substantial excess public spending, extraordinarily weak public sector productivity and a subsequent loss of tax competitiveness with more micro-management and [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 3 minute read FIRST Jeremy Hunt said there had been no taxpayer support for Silicon Valley Bank (UK) – but then the Treasury's statement said there had been 'no taxpayer money'. There is a slight but important difference.
By Catherine McBride – 7 minute read UK TRADE has taken quite a beating from the anti-Brexit brigade since the release of some 2021 trade figures almost a year ago. Now that the full set of 2022 trade figures have been made available we can see that not only were their conclusions premature, they were [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 4 minutes read The UK's Central Bank Digital Currency project demonstrates Bank of England independence – from us and our political representatives Introduction RISHI SUNAK and Jeremy Hunt have brought about the complete independence of the Bank of England – more than under Gordon Brown's actions when he became Chancellor. The [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read BRITAIN SHOULD BE BOOMING. Our economy is structurally biased to globally growing industries from financial and professional services to elite education, from media and cultural assets to racing cars, from bio and medical technology to logistics, from niche engineering to tourism. These are all industries growing more rapidly [...]
