A Brexit-enabled tweak to the Solvency II regulatory requirements would allow mortgage backed securities to be less capital intensive, making them more attractive to pension funds.
The Edinburgh Reforms, changes in procurement rules, the UK’s accession into CPTPP, avoiding a £191 billion contribution to the EU’s “Stimulus Fund”. All these are ignored by a remainer Quango guilty of confirmation bias.
A new policy programme from some of the UK’s most innovative businesses and thinkers sets out a range of recommendations for government and regulators to consider.
The approach set out under the REUL Bill risked becoming a parochial and backward-looking distraction. EU regulation should be considered in conjunction with domestic rules and curent economic and social trends.
A major target of Government policy in respect of the domestic and trade economy ought to be the rebalancing of our unsustainable balance of payments deficit.
He was the most formidable Chancellor of the Twentieth Century and a titan of the modern Conservative Party – voting for Sunak and endorsing his approach in last summer’s Tory leadership election.,
There are growing fears that promising growth companies won’t actively consider listing in London, and that the current drip-drip of companies moving to New York may become a flood.
We don’t have time to waste. During 2025 and 2026 the TCA, the UK/EU fisheries agreement, the EU’s decision on UK data adequacy and its current policy on derivatives trading all come up for review.
As I vote on legislation passing through Parliament, I notice a steady stream of laws that we could not have passed were we still in the EU.
The question we should be aiming to answer is how we can make our financial sector both competitive and secure.
We can avoid getting into an argument about whether or not the Government’s plan is an industrial strategy. The Conservative Party has got rather hung up on that term.
A focus on growth is essential to stave off the foreboding economic headwinds that the next occupant of Number 10 will face.
My guess is that she is too smart to allow the worst case scenario to happen. To do that, however, she is going to have to move swiftly from focusing on winning the confidence of Conservative MPs and party members to winning the confidence of the markets.
As one Cabinet Minister put it to me recently, the Treasury has never been interested in growth, just in collecting taxes.
Failure to reform carries risk too: lower returns for investors, poorer incomes in retirement, and an economy that doesn’t get the investment it needs.