Economy

The recent focus on trade links with China reflects both the urgent priority to develop export opportunities for the United Kingdom economy and the widely recognised prominence of the emerging Read more

David Cameron said something particularly interesting last week. It wasn’t that the next Conservative government will achieve full employment, support another 3 million apprenticeships, double free childcare, increase the percentage Read more

To repeat that grossly (and slightly wrongly) over-quoted mantra from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Bill (or rather his campaign strategist, James Carville) was right. The Read more

This morning’s Today programme had one of their regular reports from 100 constituencies around the UK – today’s was about Ceredigion. It featured a variety of voices many of whom Read more

Banker bashing has become one of the most popular sports of recent times, politicians of all colours and hue strive to be identified with ‘good’ industries, almost any industry, rather Read more

On Tuesday I attended an event to the CBI on how to engage Chinese talent. Event organisers, Allied China Europe Society and UVIC, wanted to see whether Britain was still Read more

Business is an important tool for social mobility. Or it should be. On the evening of November 30, the day of the public sector strike, I crossed a dark square Read more

A trite title but an apt one… Let’s go in reverse order as I’m an optimistic kind of person. The Ugly Our deficit and debt positions are ugly. Our economy Read more

I am currently making my way through the latest diary from Chris Mullin; ‘A Walk-On Part’. Anyone who enjoyed his previous diaries will gain the same amount of pleasure from Read more

As the world economy faces a possible double dip we should take a moment to work out how we got in this mess. We seem to have taken the ideas Read more