Starmer’s big plan for economic growth? Devolve, and make it someone else’s responsibility.
Henry Hill
“Meaningful fiscal devolution within England would face huge opposition from Labour councils; anything else would not give town halls the incentive to undertake difficult reforms.”
—
William Atkinson
“On current trends, the next election poses the greatest threat to the Conservative Party’s continued existence since the Corn Laws. Can we imagine politics with under 50 Tory MPs?”
—
Andrew Gimson
“It is a childish fantasy to suppose that defenestrating the PM would lead to success at the polls.”
—
More Labour hypocrisy on zero hours contracts. The Mayor of London uses them.
Harry Phibbs
“Plenty of NHS trusts also find such flexibility beneficial. What would be the cost (in lives as well as money) if a Labour Government disrupted them from continuing?”
—
Biden’s border crisis is pushing American voters towards Trump
James Johnson
“Trump has promised the “largest deportation programme in American history”. To citizens it sounds sensible: current polling shows the idea is backed by Republicans, independents, and Democrats alike.”
—
The Church of England’s bureaucracy has forgotten its mission
Dr Sarah Ingham
“There is too much empire-building, mission creep, time-wasting diversification, and gasping to catch up with transitory trends.”
—
History shows that economic transformation is an inherently political enterprise
James Vitali
“Growth is as much a political problem as it is an economic one. We need to spend vastly moe time thinking about the trade-offs and compromises required to achieve it, how to sequence reforms, and which battles to pick and when.”
—
Britain’s demographic crisis is not inevitable. We must act to close the birth gap.
Phoebe Arslanagi-Little
“People are having fewer children than they want: 80 per cent of British women of childbearing age want at least two children, with an average number of desired children of 2.35 per woman – far above the current total fertility rate of 1.49.”
—
How to make it easier for people to move about – and build more homes
Nicholas Boys Smith
“Most people increasingly think that the ‘big road’ approach to city design was wrong – and undermining, not just of urban beauty, but of our health and prosperity as well. Gentle density allows for more housing.”
—
William Atkinson
“Successive Prime Ministers have clung to the idea that our ‘deterrent’ has “operational independence”. But Trident is the atomic equivalent of a very expensive hire car, leant to us by Washington to soothe our national ego.”