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By: Andrew O’Brien

Andrew O’Brien is director of Policy and Impact at Demos.

All 5 Articles
  • Why public-private partnerships are more difficult in the UK

    Opinion

    Labour's promised big on growth by backing the City, but successful partnership with business is easier said than done, writes Andrew O'Brien.

    Active job postings grew by 3.3 per cent compared to the month before as London saw the second highest increase across the country. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
  • Our theories of growth are broken — ‘do good’ businesses will boost Britain

    andrew o'brien

    We've exhausted the other options for growth, it's time to embrace a purpose-led economy, writes Andrew O'Brien.

  • Give over 50s a tax bonus of £1,000 to get them out of retirement and back to work

    andrew o'brien

    The premium pound - or the older workers who can boost our economy - need to be tempted back to the office, write Andrew O'Brien

  • The City’s Big Bang 2.0 might well be green-powered

    February 2, 2021

    In the Chancellor’s recent interview with City AM, Sunak said he was confident that Brexit could lead to a new wave of innovation in the City of London and the UK seeing a ‘Big Bang 2.0’. Unfortunately, most of the commentary on business and Brexit has been around the traditional tropes of cutting red tape. [...]

  • Boris Johnson is right to delay corporation tax cuts

    November 21, 2019

    Boris Johnson showed a lot of guts to go to the CBI Conference and announce that he was delaying a planned corporation tax cut in order to fund public services. This was a speech which was long overdue.  Since 2010, governments have given away corporation tax cuts worth over £60bn. This figure doesn’t include the [...]

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