The SMF’s new Senior Fellow, Stuart Hudson, explains how Keir Starmer’s government can deliver regulatory reform in practice
The government has promised an overhaul of Britain’s regulatory system in order…
Writing recently in the Economist, John Vickers and Bill Kovacic compared the UK government’s competition policy unfavourably with the one pursued last time Labour was in office, from 1997 to…
In the next few days the heads of Britain’s regulators will be sending their replies to a letter from Keir Starmer in which, according to Sky’s Mark Kleinman, the Prime…
From Blair and Brown to Starmer and Reeves
As the general election get closer, those of us who worked for the last Labour government often get asked how different we…
Avoid the technocratic trap, the wishful thinking trap, the mediamacro trap and the false analogy trap
The American economist Alan Blinder once set out what he called the lamppost theory…
Independent regulators are increasingly under fire — so why does their independence matter? How much power should they be granted? And how can they be held accountable?
The spotlight is…