By: Jamila Robertson

Jamila Robertson is an entrepreneur and political commentator. Director at the Centre for the Future of Work, she writes monthly for City AM on skills and business policy. Co-host and creator of the Mod Cons Podcast, she regularly appears in broadcast media including LBC, Jeremy Vine and GB News. In 2024 she stood as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Brent East.

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Time to take a Milei-style chainsaw to the nanny state

Opinion

Ask any business what is the biggest barrier to growth and time and again they will tell you it’s regulation, says Jamila Robertson In a recent talk at the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), the former Bank of England Governor, Lord King, reflected that the Bank of England staff had risen from 2,000 to 5,000 [...]
Reeves has instigated a wealth and talent exodus: welcome to REXIT

Opinion

This year has seen the biggest single wealth exodus ever recorded, and they are taking an estimated $91.8bn USD out of the country with them, writes Jamila Robertson Rachel Reeves’ now historic Budget carried on where her last left off – bruising business, threatening jobs and further squeezing working people. It raised taxes by £26bn; [...]
Reeves has learned nothing from her last Budget

Opinion

Amidst market uncertainty caused by her delayed and vague budget “context” speech, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is now expected to introduce a raft of significant tax increases on income, property, and businesses to address a national debt she helped exacerbate, says Jamila Robertson This week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a speech to set the context for [...]

Reeves must get ruthless on welfare

October 2, 2025

Rachel Reeves’ plans for a youth guarantee scheme and lifting the two-child benefit cap are not enough to tackle the spiralling welfare bill, says Jamila Robertson This week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her plan to fix the unemployment crisis, which has seen 621,000 under-24s out of work this year. Reeves’ ‘youth guarantee’ scheme would provide [...]
Universities are failing to train young people for the jobs of tomorrow

September 12, 2025

Nearly 12 per cent of people on universal credit are graduates. It’s time our universities stepped up by training students for the jobs they, and the British economy, need, writes Jamila Robertson In response to a written question by shadow minister Neil’ O Brien, the UK Statistics Authority revealed that 11.9 per cent of those [...]
How the Conservatives can become the party of millennials like me

August 7, 2025

Millennials make up the largest age cohort in many of the areas where the Conservatives need to shore up support. To win us back the Tories need answers on the cost of living, housing and tax, says Jamila Robertson Millennials are often given a hard rap – scoffed at as snowflakes by Boomers, and as [...]
Battersea power station lights the way for regenerating our high streets

July 3, 2025

Mixed-use development, funded by private capital like Battersea Power Station can bring life back to high streets hammered by Labour’s tax rises, says Jamila Robertson Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Labour’s landslide victory and their year-long opportunity to attain the growth they promised the electorate. I have written extensively about the damage decisions made [...]
Welfare U-turns show Starmer puts party ahead of country

June 5, 2025

The Conservatives are the only political party able to say they take the country’s £100bn debt bill and £65bn welfare bill seriously, says Jamila Robertson We have heard the government assert time and again, that they are taking the difficult decisions. Almost a year on, with inflation up from two per cent to 3.5 per [...]
Britain is going to the polls, but what’s the point of metro mayors?

May 1, 2025

Voters will elect four new regional mayors today, but until we give them proper powers over tax, devolution will remain a fig-leaf for deeper structural problems, says Jamila Robertson Today, voters head to polling stations to elect four regional mayors (two of which are new roles for 2025, with six to come in 2026). This [...]
It’s Rayner to the rescue but who will build Labour’s 1.3m homes?

April 2, 2025

Labour’s only hope for growth is new housebuilding – but Britain doesn’t have the workforce to deliver even the newly downgraded targets. There is an obvious solution, says Jamila Robertson In the Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves acknowledged that she will no longer be able to meet the government’s manifesto pledge to build 1.5m homes by [...]

City stunned by Nuveen’s £10bn swoop on Schroders

Sport’s overreachers like Sussex and Leicester are guilty of hope not greed

Maryam d’Abo: the Bond girl who refused to be objectified

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