One of the most critical challenges facing Britain’s Labour government is how to promote business investment while still protecting consumers.
On one hand, Labour wants to promote economic growth…
One aspect of the Thames Water saga has been relatively unexplored in the political and media commentary. How did the water companies get away with taking on so much debt…
This post is based on my contributions at two events this week on the subject of how Britain’s Labour government thinks about competition, growth and the CMA.
The first…
It was a pleasure to take part in the recent symposium in Oxford chaired by Professor Ariel Ezrachi on the balance between competitiveness, growth, consumer welfare and other societal goals.…
Mainstream parties in western countries are not short of advice on why they have been losing support to populists in recent years, or on the kinds of policy prescriptions that…
The UK government has today published the final version of its strategic steer to the CMA. Helpfully, the Department for Business and Trade has also published a short note…
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…
The government’s current deregulatory push – from planning reform to financial services – has led some on the centre-left to ask whether such a policy approach really counts as progressive.…