This article was published in The Spectator. Welfare reform is back in Westminster, with both Labour and the Tories now seeking solutions to deal with the 5.2 million on out-of-work benefits – a figure which The Spectator was first to pick up on. The Times today splashed on possible government proposals with Labour’s Jon Ashworth now accusing…
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This article was written by Nick Gutteridge, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, and Christopher Hope, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, and originally published by The Telegraph. Rishi Sunak has dropped plans to rein in Whitehall bureaucracy by setting Government departments “red tape budgets’’. Ministers would have been handed binding annual targets limiting the total regulatory cost…
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I’m honoured to be this month’s ‘Parliamentary Tech Champion’, because of the role technology can play in sharpening competition to create big, powerful citizen-consumers so markets work for people rather than the other way round. This is a key theme in my Government-commissioned report on Competition Policy, Power to the…
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This article was published in The Daily Express Britain’s economy could be left behind by more competitive international rivals unless Rishi Sunak’s government moves fast than its predecessors, a Conservative MP has said. John Penrose, MP for Weston-Super-Mare who is Competition Tsar said reforms to the government’s previously planned levelling…
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