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If you value the NHS: back British business

The Labour party, rightly, is obsessed with public services. Scratch the surface of any party member, and you’ll get a deluge of views about the health service, education system, libraries, railways...

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Going for growth

The past few years have been tough times economically for both companies and governments. From the beginning of the financial difficulties in 2008, which led to a very poor performance for the industry...

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The UK as a world leader

The connected world we now live in has seen technology take up widely and deeply in our society in a way that generations before could not imagine. From satellite and cable television, through to...

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Has Labour finally ‘got’ skills?

Ed Miliband’s 2012 speech to the Labour party conference was eye catching for its spontaneous and seemingly unscripted delivery. In policy terms, however, it may well also be remembered over time as...

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Fuelling an export-led recovery

Express delivery plays a critical role in supporting many types of businesses by offering rapid, time-definite delivery of goods and documents to customers throughout the world. An export-led recovery...

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Skilling for growth

This year marks 50 years since Harold Wilson’s landmark White Heat of Technology speech. In it he argued how our country would be transformed by new industries and new ideas, warning: ‘The Britain that...

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The digital goose that lays the golden egg

Last year, the UK watched its final analogue TV broadcast with remarkable little fanfare or publicity. Who even noticed when, last October, Digital Switchover was completed successfully? The largest...

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Beyond the Bloomberg speech

Growth is like sex: everyone is in favour of it, but no one is entirely sure how you go about getting any. And while George Osborne might be like someone who buys a copy of Neil Strauss’ misogynistic...

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Agreeing an active industrial policy

This week George Osborne has failed two important tests: the first being his own benchmark for economic stability, Britain’s credit rating; the second, my preferred benchmark for economic success,...

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The Labour-business partnership

If Labour is elected in 2015, it will face the most testing economic conditions since Harold Wilson beat Ted Heath to form a minority Labour government in 1974. But while that government’s term was...

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