Rachel Reeves needs to cut public spending, reverse the revenue-losing tax rises she instituted last year and pursue significant supply side reforms if she is to reduce borrowing and deliver meaningful economic growth. That is the message contained in The Growth Commission’s Growth Budget 2025, published ahead of the Budget. With the Prime Minister having […]
Rachel Reeves needs to cut public spending, reverse the revenue-losing tax rises she instituted last year and pursue significant supply side reforms if she is to reduce borrowing and deliver meaningful economic growth. That is the message contained in The Growth Commission’s Growth Budget 2025, published today ahead of next week’s Budget. With the Prime […]
Growth Commission member Douglas McWilliams has issued the following response to the GDP figures for the third quarter of 2025 that have been issued this morning: “Quarterly GDP growth in Q3 is officially estimated to have fallen to 0.1% from 0.3% in Q2, while GDP per capita growth for the quarter – the best measure […]
New calculations published today by The Growth Commission in The Impact of Brexit on the UK Economy – and the opportunities yet to be realised set out the considerable benefits to the UK economy of using Brexit freedoms to enact pro-competitive regulations which diverge from the EU rule book. The Commission’s economic models suggest that even taking into account […]
Government ministers and other politicians blaming the UK’s economic stagnation on the UK’s departure from the European Union are using Brexit as a scapegoat for decades of failure, says Shanker Singham, Chairman of the Growth Commission and one of the world’s leading experts on trade. The message from Singham – who has previously advised the UK […]
The Growth Commission today announces six former national leaders as members of its newly-established International Advisory Board. The former heads of government comprising the IAB have huge experience on which our Commissioners will be privileged to draw as they continue to focus on economic analysis of the policies which will best deliver growth for Western […]