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The EU expands its foreign policy
This week at the G7 Germany as host nation invited Senegal, South Africa, Argentina, Indonesia and India to join the members. India as one of the largest economies and the most populated democracy has been several times before. The presence of two African nations shortly after Chancellor Scholz’s three...Read More »
Boom and bust from the Treasury and Bank
History shows us that Treasury and Bank advice for the last fifty years has been poor, or in some cases Treasury advisers failed to prevent Chancellors making bad mistakes.
1970-73 The Bank allowed a massive explosion of credit, creating a secondary banking and property crisis. Inflation took off, and...Read More »
My Conservative Home article
Some Conservatives are taking heart from the fact that in Wakefield and Honiton Conservatives stayed away rather than switching to Labour. It should after all be easier to persuade abstainers back than to tell switchers they have got it wrong. In Wakefield there was also an unusually high...Read More »
Stop interfering in industry
The government is running up huge bills on industrial interventions that fail to deliver good results. Its ill judged price control on domestic fuel led to the bankruptcy of a large number of suppliers without preventing a subsequent huge surge in the prices consumers have to pay. taxpayers are now...Read More »
Wokingham Conservative AGM
At the Earley AGMs on Thursday 14th June and at the Wokingham Conservative AGM on Friday 25th June I spoke about the work I have been doing in a number of important areas.
- Housing numbers and a new local Plan
- The need for an economic policy to fight recession
- Measures to be taken...Read More »