Steve Lomas

Le coût des loyers s'est totalement écroulé à Buenos Aires. Comment Milei a fait: - retrait des politiques de contrôle de loyer - simplification des contrats - protection des propriétaires - retrait de nombreuses régultations concernant les logements Bref, tout l'inverse de ce que fait la gauche. Il n'y a rien de plus efficace que le marché pour fournir les meilleures prix.

The cumulative tax burden on hospitality is now unsustainable for too many and with global political and economic crises to navigate a change of approach is needed - cut VAT, reform rates and pause govt imposed energy charges

How can the UK stay competitive as a global tourism destination? 🌍 Tourism generated £58bn in 2023. Our new inquiry will explore how the government can support growth to 50m overseas visitors by 2030.

The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband A new occasional series — No 2 At a time when global supply chains are vulnerable and we should be producing much more of our own food, E Miliband has today approved Springwell Solar Farm. It will cover seven square miles of prime Lincolnshire farmland. And the solar panels are likely to come from China (so much for green manufacturing jobs). Mili-Madness on stilts.

Norwich has lost forty-six per cent of the businesses inside a 500-metre radius of its town centre. You'd have called that a recession statistic once upon a time, but it's actually something larger, on the order of a city's economic memory being erased in real time. Every one of those shutters is somebody's name above a door, somebody's lease, and somebody's last roll of the dice. The British Retail Consortium has now told the Treasury that the National Insurance increase will cost the retail sector £2.3 billion a year. Ministers were warned this would happen. They were warned by people who have actually run shops, employed people, made payroll. They went ahead anyway, because the Treasury model said it would raise revenue, and the Treasury model does not contain a column for the baker on Magdalen Street. The country we used to be - that country that built all this up - was the country that took small commerce seriously, the country that knew that that's where it all starts. And small business is not charity; it's the basic unit of an economy that belongs to its people. We are losing that, and we are losing it on purpose.

The nut zero zealotry of Ed Miliband. A new occasional series. [feel free to add]. Fertiliser prices and shortages are soaring because the petrochemical industries of the Gulf states are major global suppliers but the Strait of Hormuz, through which they export, is closed. Not good for the spring planting season. Undaunted the UK will introduce a levy on imported carbon-intensive fertiliser as part of its costly obsession with cutting emissions, even when the impact is slight. At a time when we should be increasing food security government policy is to penalise farmers further.

V telling that this is how government spokespeople respond to restaurateurs and business owners explaining in specific ways how they've been shafted by recent policies and fear going bust. All they can offer is asinine, triumphalist soundbites

A landmark moment for workers 🎉 Labour’s Employment Rights Act is delivering stronger rights at work. From today: day 1 rights to paternity & parental leave, and stronger sick pay - so parents get support from the start and no one has to choose between their health and income.