Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
Is the honeymoon period over for the UK economy? The release of new UK GDP figures on Friday shows a slowing of growth from 0.7% in Q4 2016 to 0.3% in Q1 2017. It’s not come as a big shock. Indeed, what has been more surprising is that growth has remained high for as long …
Today is without doubt momentous. It heralds the biggest strategic and economic change the UK has seen since WWII. Acheson’s comments in 1962, following the decolonisation that characterised the post-war period, are particularly resonant: “Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. The attempt to play a separate power role …
This was not a Budget that will live long in the memory, or the history books. Other than, of course, that under this government and Chancellor, it will be the last spring Budget. Recall though that Norman Lamont also decided to do something similar about twenty years but it never happened – because he got …
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