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The role of a Shadow Cabinet Minister
I was a Shadow Cabinet Minister after the big election defeat of 1997. A Shadow Cabinet Minister does not draw an additional salary above the MP pay, unlike a Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, select committee chairmen and some other office holders. It is nonetheless an important second job...Read More »
The elections in Thuringia and Saxony
The Success of the AFD and a new so called left wing anti migrant party in the two latest German regional Parliament elections confirms a pattern of voters despairing of traditional parties. In the U.K. the two main parties got just 58% of the vote in the General election. In...Read More »
What many Conservative and Reform voters want.
This is an amended version an article commissioned by the Telegraph in 2022
Too much Taxing makes a country poorer
Governments tax tobacco to stop people smoking. They tax alcohol to limit people drinking. They tax petrol and diesel because they want us to use less. They tax plastic waste to get rid of it. They tax flying to reduce it. You get the idea. Government knows better than people...Read More »
The productivity collapse in the public sector
The ONS put the loss of productivity at 6.5% 2020 to 2023. The Treasury say we lost £20 bn that way. It looks more like £30 bn.
How did it happen? There was of course a loss of productivity in schools when they were shut for Covid, but that bounced back...Read More »