A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

The Queen’s Speech on 11th March announced  measures to “improve regulation” and the Treasury announced what it described as “a bonfire of EU red tape”. This has echoes of a remarkably similar promise from David Cameron to have a “bonfire...
A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

Free speech is fundamental to a free society.

Without free speech, there can be no free exchange of ideas, no free society and no effective democracy. Even, or perhaps especially, during the pandemic there has been robust public discourse about the scale and impact of the threat to life and to the economy that...
A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

Queen’s Speech: all 163 pages of the interesting bits

The Queen’s Speech may have lasted only a few minutes and announced only a couple of dozen new Bills. But the full briefing document runs to 163 pages and contains a few unexpected surprises for policy wonks and political nerds like me. The full text of the...