John and his team were out canvassing whilst Jeremy Corbyn was on Womens’ Hour, finding himself unable to say how much his childcare pledges would cost and where the money was coming from… Although none of the canvassing team had heard the interview, people coming to the doors were expressing…
Read MoreJohn Penrose, author of The Great Rebalancing: A sovereign wealth fund to make the UK’s economy the strongest in the G20 (link), has long campaigned for the establishment of a British Sovereign Wealth Fund to underpin the state pension and benefits system. Today’s Conservative Manifesto (page 20) says that this will now…
Read MoreAn energy price cap has now been committed to by the Conservatives as they unveil their manifesto today. John Penrose said: “The Prime Minister really gets it. Millions of people have been ripped off for decades and we’re going to stop it. “Most businesses believe customer loyalty is vital. But the…
Read MoreFollowing the Prime Minister’s recent pledge to put forward a price cap on standard variable energy tariffs, John Penrose, MP for Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset called for a relative cap rather than a fixed upper limit. The relative cap would limit the differential between the highest and lowest chargeable price, creating…
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