Industry and Growth
2020 Talks Industrial Policy with Mark Littlewood
Posted by 2020 Conservatives on 18th April at 10:35amOn Tuesday 20th March Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute for Economic Affairs, addressed the 2020 Group on the subject of industrial policy. The meeting took the form of a short presentation from Mark, followed by a discussion with the Group.
Growth Sectors
Posted by 2020 Conservatives on 18th April at 10:35amAs part of the 2020 Group's Growth and Industry Month, MPs with personal experience of particular high growth sectors were invited to give short presentations to the rest of the Group.
On 28th February Stephen Hammond, Adam Afriyie and George Freeman spoke o
Why We Need an Innovation Econony
Posted by George Freeman on 18th April at 10:35amSomething is stirring in the boardrooms of British industry. You heard it at Davos. Peter Mandelson is onto it, and last week Vince Cable joined in. The scale of the structural economic crisis facing the western democracies after the crash of the consumerist boo
Innovation is in the Conservative DNA
Posted by Adam Afriyie on 18th April at 10:35amTo reassert traditional Conservative values we must embrace the progressive concepts intrinsic to science and innovation. Science and innovation can secure the economic growth our country so desperately needs and form the foundation for the Conservative party o
The case for Financial Services
Posted by Stephen Hammond on 18th April at 10:35amThe "Bash the Banker" culture has been convenient as a source of blame for the recession but it does have economic and political ramifications. It ignores that much of financial services is neither investment banking (aka casino banking) nor based in the City.
Life Sciences at the heart of a UK Industrial Policy
Posted by George Freeman on 18th April at 10:35amAs Britain seeks to build a sustainable recovery from the car crash of Labour's debt and credit fuelled boom, the Chancellor has rightly set the Conservative led Coalition on a mission to rebuild a 'rebalanced economy'. Less dependent on unsustainable booms in
Creative Growth
Posted by Damian Collins on 18th April at 10:35amThe creative economy is flexible, dynamic, driving exports and regenerating cities. It is worth about 6% of UK GDP, employs over 2 million people and brings in over �17billion a year for its exports. It is also creating jobs at twice the rate of the rest of the