Giles Wilkes
Senior Fellow
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How should autumn shortages affect long-term government policy?
The government should acknowledge the Brexit-related causes of our current problems
Productivity and innovation: not such a simple story
Research and development spending is not sufficient to restore the UK economy to productivity growth
Productivity: firing on all cylinders
A narrow focus on high-value sectors will not address the UK’s £300bn growth gap.
The CBI’s economic diagnosis: welcome optimism, too much collaboration, not enough competition
Giles Wilkes says the CBI's new policy paper steps away from the importance of competition
The Queen’s Speech kicks the tricky decisions away
Giles Wilkes is unimpressed by a Queen’s Speech that relied heavily on the government’s ill-defined promise to "level up"
The UK’s AstraZeneca vaccine decision strikes the right balance
The UK’s health establishment has responded calmly to concern and confusion around the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
The Greensill saga is a brutal reminder of the value in tougher financial regulation
The Greensill affair reminds us that when it comes to “FinTech”, the need for tough financial regulation is as important as ever.
Sunak's Plan for Growth resembles a shopping list not a balanced prospectus
Giles Wilkes is left unimpressed by the chancellor's Plan for Growth
Don’t believe the rhetoric – this is a supremely industrial-strategy minded government
Giles Wilkes looks beyond a shift in Treasury rhetoric and says this government is still one with an industrial strategy-led agenda at its heart
Brexit is not the point any more – there are other difficult questions to answer
The new year should bring an end to the old arguments about Brexit and instead usher in a steadier resolve to answer long-term policy problems