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My article for Conservative Home – a more productive and less costly state
Conservatives want more prosperity and happiness for the many. We believe that greater freedom, lower tax rates, and more enterprise is the best way to bring that about. We do not want an ever bigger state...Read More »
Barclays Bank offers services in the Bradbury Centre
I have received a follow up to the exchanges I had with Barclays about closing its Wokingham branch. I am pleased to see there will be assistance available for local Barclays customers in the Bradbury Centre four days a week, close to where the old branch was. I reproduce...Read More »
The European Court of Human Rights and small boats
There is speculation that some members of the Cabinet are wanting to put repeal of our membership of the European Human Rights Treaty into the Manifesto if there are further legal reversals to the policy of transferring illegal migrants elsewhere.
That would mean accepting legal defeat for more than a year...Read More »
Inflation and growth
I was talking to government advisers yesterday about how to deliver both falling inflation and better growth.
I pointed out that the Bank with its wrong forecasts of inflation and the OBR with its wrong forecasts of the debt and deficit are conspiring to create a recession through excessive monetary tightening...Read More »
You cannot have capitalism without capital.
History and geography teaches us that societies that back free enterprise, freedom and private property more deliver higher living standards. Societies where government regulates, taxes and nationalises on a grand scale deliver lower incomes and less freedom.
The great east-west communism against more free enterprise systems in post war Europe delivered...Read More »