Business is the wealth generator of the UK, and small and family businesses are the often neglected heart of the UK economy, with family businesses alone employing nearly four in ten of the UK’s workforce. We propose ways to make the UK an economy all businesses can thrive in.
EMU now?
As with the pamphlet Monetarism Lost published last year by the Centre for Policy Studies, this paper was written in great haste in response to topical events. I have not had time to seek extensive comments on it, and mistakes and opinions are very much my own responsibility.
An African Enterprise
The release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years in goal, was rightly hailed as being of international significance. It marked not only a victory for humanity but also gave the first real public signal that apartheid was about to expire.
Monetary Union
Let me acknowledge that there are many questions which need to be answered by those who, like me, favour moves towards a common currency for Europe.
The Power of the Pendulum
The press greeted the summer of 1989 with forecasts of a summer of discontent, a season that would do for Mrs Thatcher what the winter of 1978-9 did for Mr Callaghan. This has proved to be a mirage.
Set Food Markets Free
Government monopolies control the market of milk, wool and potatoes in Britain. This paper outlines the origin of these monopolies in the 1930s; their growth into large commercial operations; the economic, social and technical changes which have occurred since 1930 and the position of such national monopolies in a common European market.
Policies Against Pollution
The Governments program for environmental protection seems to have come as something of a shock to some of the less well informed commentators.
Of Dukes and Dustmen
A completely new charge, impost, levy, tax – call it what you will – is certain to be sometimes misrepresented and often misunderstood. Hard cases, exemptions, the complexity which is inevitable given the infinite variety of our styles of living, all add to the confusion.
Monetarism Lost
etween mod-1996 and mid 1988 the British economy experienced a full scale boom. Over the two years national output rose almost 10 per cent, much faster than could be sustained in the long term.
Joining the EMS for and Against
Discussions of possible British membership of the EMS have unfortunately become highly politicised. Both supporters and opponents frequently claim that such a move is far more than it appears to be on the surface – that it is a stepping stone on what may be either a more glittering, or more sinister, path.
Exertion & Example
Everyone seeks in history a justification for the present and even, sometimes, a guide to the future.
The Power of Ideas
In his speech in January to an audience especially invited by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was eloquent on the necessity, and the force, of new ideas to sustain and carry forward a government.
The Local Right
For the last 150 years local authorities of various persuasions have represented and served their various communities. By Nicholas Ridley MP.
Opting Out
The education Bill before Parliament honours the promise made by the government before the general election to give state schools the chance to opt out of local authority control and run themselves.
Natural Partners
It is an irony that many critics of Thatcherism who allege that it has lost its connection with its ancient conservative roots, are precisely those who were complacent at Britain’s steady movement into corporatism.
