This article was written by John for Conservative Home to share ideas within his policy paper, Power To The People. Markets aren’t the ‘law of the jungle’ as the political left always claims. Competition needs rules to work properly so consumers have rights when something goes wrong, staff aren’t exploited,…
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O hell, here comes another one. No one wanted to start 2021 with a third lockdown but, as the new and more-infectious strain of Covid spread, it proved too strong for the local tier system. And with the NHS starting to fill up under the strain, even though covid treatments…
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John wrote this article for The Times newspaper. Adam Smith never bought car insurance. Or used an internet search engine. Or took out a triple-play broadband-TV-phone contract. If he had, the father of modern economics might have been less confident that free competition between suppliers ensures all customers get a…
Read More The Council’s consultation on its plans for local transport and homes has just closed. Don’t worry if you missed it, because there’s a second round due later this autumn. But a huge ‘thank you’ to everyone who took part, particularly the thousand-plus who wrote in to agreed with me that…
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