This article was originally published in ‘Onward’. For hundreds of years, businesses have transformed our lives for the better by creating wealth, improving living standards, creating jobs, and inventing cool gadgets that make life easier, more interesting and fun. But they can create problems too; if we don’t set things…
This article was originally published in The Yorkshire Post. A combination of lots of good, new jobs in rival white-collar industries sucking talented people away to work in things like finance or software development, together with a toxic mix of cheap foreign competitors, high energy prices at home and a…
This article was written by David Lynch and originally published on The Independent website. John Penrose has given his support to a 10-point plan which aims to increase the value of manufacturing to 15% of GDP by 2025. A former Government minister has backed a plan which aims to reverse the “long,…
John joins a BBC Radio 4 discussion on the Energy Price Cap, saying that it: “isn’t doing what it needed to do”, partly because it was only re-set every six months, whereas wholesale costs could change much more quickly.