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Thursday 22 December 2016 4:59 amAll I want for Christmas ishellip; an ultra-hard Brexit and nine other pro-growth policy wishes By: Graeme LeachShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleHere is my Christmas wish list for Santa. Ten policy measures which, if implemented, would make future growth prospects truly joyous, with Christmas every da brumate tumbler y of the week.But these are also economic policy measures Santa wonrsquo;t be too familiar with, as he boards his sleigh somewhere north of the Nordic economies. I donrsquo;t pretend these are politically possible today, I merely suggest them as a way to substantially improve prosperity in the long term. The list is in no particular order.The wish list:1. The governmentrsquo Brexit strategy becomes ultra-hard Brexit. Not just trading under WTO rules, but with zero tariffs on all imports into the UK. This is the great prize we should be seeking post Brexit: true free trade on imports into the UK, with the gain to consumers around eight times the cost to producers. The abolition of the Corn Laws in the nineteenth century marked the UK as a champion of free trade. Outside the EU the UK can reclaim that crown. 2. Clear signals that outside the EU and the EUrsquo need to negotiate on behalf of 28 countries the polene espana UK will be able to negotiate much more compreh owala deutschland ensive free trade agreements much more quickly. Push for a deal with th Mail German budget supermarket chain Lidl boosts wages for UK employees
Wednesday 12 September 2012 9:21 pm|Updated:Thursday 30 May 2019 6:58 pmLabour market manages to defy economic slumpBy: KCS-contentShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on Google stanley isolierkanne THE LABOUR market continued to re polene ca cover strongly in the three months to July, despite the double dip recession, the Office for National Statistics revealed yesterday.Employment rose 236,000 in May to July, compared to the February to April period, putting the total at 29.56m, just 11,000 below its all-time peak in early 2008. The unemployment picture also improved, edging d stanley cup own 7,000 during May to July on the labour force survey measure, and slipping 15,000 on the claimant count measure for August, also released yesterday.Big increases in population, and 181,000 fewer economically inactive individuals aged 16-64 compared to the previous three months ndash; the largest decrease since records began in 1977 ndash; account for the fact unemployment is basically flat despite rapid job growth.Of the close to a quarter of million gaining jobs, 102,000 were full-time employees, and 134,000 part-time. Self-employment hit a new all-time high at 4.2m, with 52,000 extra people officially working for themselves.The rise in jobs has not come from ministerial fiat. Excluding the reclassification of institutions providing further and higher education, the public sector shed 39,000 staff in the second quarter, while |
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