It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
Lidington writes that “the UK has the potential to be world-leading in areas such as fintech, life sciences, artificial intelligence and genetic modification”.
Japan, Korea, Taiwan and now China, have all invested heavily in new technologies – through government support for new industries.
The D10 presents an opportunity for coordinating democracies around goals of combating climate change while securing supply chains.
The first of a new series of pieces by Policy Exchange for ConservativeHome looking at the various issues that arise from the Brexit trade deal.
Here’s how can now use our freedoms as we leave – assuming there is no last-minute wish to be sensible by the EU and agree a free trade deal.
The towns of the North East, left behind for generations by Labour, will need to see their Conservative MPs forging a durable path to a future.
They can seem remote from the everyday priorities of people here at home. But at its heart, trade is a powerful way to deliver what people really care about.
There are special gains in luxury cars, migration and services – as Australia looks away from the Pacific and we stride in into the wider world.
I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.
Given the EU’s risk levels, its lack of investment in NATO and its poor relations with its neighbours, it is hardly an attractive partner; more of a liability.
The Government can avoid worsening it. But that requires as bold a deviation from ordinary policy as the extraordinary relief efforts we saw before.
The reason we will get away with it again, as we did in the banking crash, is that there is so much deflation around, inflation is not a problem.
In the geo-political battle of ideas, between an open, liberal vision of government and society, and a more authoritarian template, the continent, overwhelmingly, is in the right column.