Britain’s plan for economic recovery should shoot for the moon with a radical rethink China was ground zero for the pandemic, but the nation also saw a huge profit from the crisis, with an unprecedented eight per cent growth in GDP as other countries’ economies tumbled. While many continue to ring the toll for Britain’s economic growth, there is, contrary to popular belief, the potential to shoot for the [...]
DEBATE: Will the ban on Huawei technology benefit the UK in the long run? Will the ban on Huawei technology benefit the UK in the long run? John Longworth, director general of the Centre for Brexit Policy and chairman of the Independent Business Network, says YES. China represents a tiny percentage of UK exports and we are able, in the nick of time, to escape dependence on investment by [...]
DEBATE: Will new non-EU free trade deals offset the potential costs of Brexit to the UK economy? Will new non-EU free trade deals offset the potential costs of Brexit to the UK economy? John Longworth, co-chairman of Leave means Leave and former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, says YES. Quite apart from the political benefits of Brexit – liberty and self-determination – the economic benefits are vast: better regulation, [...]
DEBATE: Should the Airbus announcement be taken as a warning for the UK economy post-Brexit? June 25, 2018 Should the Airbus announcement be taken as a warning for the UK economy post-Brexit? Dr Victoria Bateman, lecturer and fellow in Economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, say YES. I’ve always been obsessed with planes – with their style and ability to lift themselves off the ground and connect us across vast distances. Sadly, [...]
The real Brexit dividend will be fresh support for Britain’s enterprise economy March 6, 2017 Imagine the UK became the best place in which to do busines in the developed world. A truly enterprise economy, generating wealth and taxes, what could top that? Certainly not membership of the EU. Suddenly it has become an imperative to turn that into reality and to stop relying on the EU, a "crutch" reached [...]
A £60bn bill for Brexit is outweighed heavily by economic gains November 28, 2016 The Autumn Statement provides the building blocks for Britain to be the best enterprise economy in the world. So why then has the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) been so pessimistic about growth prospects saying that we will be £60billion worse off? Well first of all, the growth forecasts outstrip all of our EU competitors, [...]
Britain needs safeguards on ever-closer union – or we’ll sleepwalk into EU exit June 30, 2014 DAVID Cameron has been engaged in a valiant, some might say vainglorious, charge to set clearer parameters for the future development of the European project – only to find that those who pay the piper call the tune. The paymaster of Europe is undoubtedly Germany, and recent events have demonstrated that it is indeed Germany [...]
