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The government is ignoring popular, easy fixes to the housing crisis

by John Myers | Mar 14, 2018 | Political Insider

Horrified passengers suddenly realize their boat has a leak. They frantically start to paddle it with their hands towards a distant shore. The engine and sail sit ignored and unused. Meanwhile, someone at the stern refuses to raise the anchor. Theresa May’s...

Our sluggish planning system is to blame for high house prices

by Tim Worstall | Feb 27, 2018 | Political Insider

We’re told that there are near half a million planning permissions out there as yet unbuilt. Enough to keep the house-building industry going for five years – thus it it argued that it cannot be the planning permission system which causes our housing problems. This is...

The Prime Minister has bought herself time – but not yet political authority

by Adrian Pepper | Jan 22, 2018 | Political Insider

After nearly losing a general election that she did not need to call, last year ended with Mrs May pulling off the greatest coup of her Premiership. By stumping up enough money, she persuaded the EU that sufficient progress had been made to enable the talks to...

Cliff edges and slippery slopes: tough times lie ahead for the UK

by Adrian Pepper | Jun 23, 2017 | Political Insider

For a whole week, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been out and about on the airwaves of the United Kingdom, attempting to talk up the prospect of a long transitional period for the UK-EU relationship after the UK’s membership of the EU lapses in March 2019. By...

Fixing the broken housing market?

by Adrian Pepper | May 8, 2017 | Political Insider

You wouldn’t think it from listening to the BBC, watching Sky News or ITN nor from reading the Daily Express. But as negotiations on Brexit continue, the UK and EU may find they can strike a grown up and wide-ranging deal after all. It could be rather an anticlimax...