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My Article in Conservative Home
Treasury briefing keeps telling us unfunded tax cuts will cause inflation. We have just lived through two years of surging and high inflation with increased taxes. That should lead them to question their bizarre view of inflation. If they believe that tax is the key to inflation why don’t the...Read More »
Ministers and civil servants
Our constitutional practice used to be based around the fundamental proposition that government power must be accountable and this is best done by Ministers reporting to an elected Parliament on the conduct of government. Ministers have to defend the actions of their officials and departmental administrations, or explain what action...Read More »
The Treasury needs to think again about inflation
Briefing from the Treasury for over a year now has been rightly telling us inflation is too high, and wrongly saying what we need to do about it.
Their mantra is unfunded tax cuts cause inflation. No recognition that the last two years of high inflation have been years of tax...Read More »
A Budget for growth, lower inflation and a lower deficit
I have been proposing a budget for faster growth and lower inflation. The notes beneath give the outlines of it.
The Prime Minister has three economic aims
• Get inflation down
• Promote growth
• Cut the deficit
These reinforce each other.
• More growth brings more revenue and lower spending on...Read More »
Artificial Intelligence
Whether we like it or not, Artificial Intelligence is going to make big advances and huge changes to business . I see many wins from it, enabling as it will a productivity advance and a quality advance in many clerical, administrative and analytical functions. It is a greatly enhanced Google...Read More »