Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
Based on the post-war record of UK economic expansion, we may be about to experience a sharp slowdown (see chart A). Latest figures show that the UK grew by 0.4% in the final quarter of 2017, down by 0.1% from an earlier estimate of 0.5%. In the year as a whole, the UK economy expanded …
I recently had the great pleasure of hosting what I think is the first conference devoted to the view of the Black community in the UK on Brexit and its implications for them, held on the 15th March at CMS McKenna, Cannon Street, London. It was also one of the best I have been at …
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This was the first Autumn Budget, and a bit like the climate one typically gets at this time of the year the economic outlook in it was a bit gloomy. Because of assumptions about lower productivity – in 16 of the last Budgets it has been forecast to return to its long-term rate of growth …