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Britain has a new prime minister. But does Andy Burnham understand business? This week on The Capitalist, @marcsidwell talks to Shadow Business Secretary @griffitha about the future of steel, cutting taxes and the return of free-market Conservatism.

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Today in the CapX briefing: Shots fired Plus: rail nationalisation heads off track, and who pays for a second staircase? Featuring: @TWGartside @nils_knoben @OrmerodPaul @Helen_Whately @griffitha @BenZaranko @arenamagdotcom @DamianGreen

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@TWGartside @AngelaRayner could set a 50-metre limit for single staircases today Read more: capx.co/the-second-sta…

Britain demands two staircases above 18 metres – Italy waits until 80 ✍️@TWGartside

The North doesn't need a second Whitehall – it needs less Whitehall ✍️ @nils_knoben says German-style federalism is a recipe for managed decline Read more: capx.co/burnham-is-tak…

Best of CapX 🎧 : @Helen_Whately on welfare reform. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary asks if John Healey has the guts to cut the benefits bill briefing.capx.co/p/despatch-hel…

ICYMI: @jamesrbuk on the self-defeating Nimbys of Belgravia capx.co/belgravias-sel…

Fishing remains one of Britain’s most poorly paid and dangerous occupations. The rate of fatal injury is 115 times the national average, while the sector is the third-lowest paid in the economy. It’s a far cry from what fishermen were promised just a decade ago. As Boris Johnson’s battle bus trundled across the country, he heralded Brexit as an opportunity for fishermen to ‘take back control’. British waters would be sovereign once again. But ministers sold out Brexit promises to grease the wheels of their EU ‘reset’. But it's not too late to use our Brexit freedoms to throw the industry a lifeline. ✍️James Hodgkinson Read more: capx.co/property-right…

In this week's Nimby Watch, Belgravia residents are up in arms about a hotel adding more rooms – for a reason that just won't wash. ✍️@jamesrbuk Read more: capx.co/belgravias-sel…

SNP, meet the Laffer Curve: putting up Scotland's top rate of tax lost the public purse £22 million in its first year

We should use our Brexit freedoms to throw the fishing industry a lifeline ✍️ James Hodgkinson for the @ASI Read more: capx.co/property-right…

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ICYMI, here's my @CapX article from last week on “AI and the jobs apocalypse that wasn’t,” which documents some of the most outlandish AI & jobs forecasts of the past decade and explains why the "experts" were so off the mark: capx.co/ai-and-the-job…

A disused police station in Belgravia is in limbo thanks to local Nimbys ✍️@jamesrbuk Read more: capx.co/belgravias-sel…

Last week was a busy one for my @CPSThinkTank colleagues in the press, a great showcase of how many issues the fantastic team have expertise on. If you'll indulge me... 🧵

@ManiBasharzad @BenRamanauskas @DrGerardLyons @DamianPudner @Helen_Whately @jcdinnage @Ben_A_Hopkinson @AdamThierer What CapX is reading this summer – our writers on the books they're packing for the beach. From John Hoskyns on fixing Britain to space opera, Dan Wang on China, unmissable novels and an impossible bomb. Clicking through could be a costly exercise. capx.co/what-capx-is-r…

@ManiBasharzad @BenRamanauskas @DrGerardLyons @DamianPudner @Helen_Whately @jcdinnage @Ben_A_Hopkinson The AI jobs apocalypse should have been here by now – @AdamThierer on why doom-laden predictions are so popular, even when events prove them wrong capx.co/ai-and-the-job…

📖 Need some Sunday reading? Here are CapX's favourite articles from the last week 👇