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10 Ways To Revive Our Economy

2 weeks ago | politicshome.com | Alan White |Sam Dumitriu

10 Ways To Revive Our Economy Why is the UK so slow to build? Sam Dumitriu, head of policy at Britain Remade, shares the think tank’s best ideas for injecting new life into the country For almost two decades, Britain’s economy has stalled. Living standards have stagnated.
From start-up to scale-up: how government can unleash Britain's entrepreneurs

Jan 13, 2025 | capx.co | Sam Dumitriu

11 March 2020 @Sam_Dumitriu Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images HMRC red tape is putting start-ups looking for investment in a chicken-egg situation Britain is great at start-ups, but must do more to help businesses scale up The UK is well behind the US when it comes to venture capital investment At today’s Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s focus will be on containing the economic impact of coronavirus. The top priority will be preventing...
How to solve the £100m bat tunnel problem

Jan 8, 2025 | samdumitriu.com | Sam Dumitriu

Infrastructure costs matter. They are the reason why major cities in France (Paris-Lyon), Germany (Berlin-Munich) and Spain (Madrid-Barcelona) are connected by high-speed rail links, while major cities in the UK or California aren’t. Building high speed rail in Britain (£464m per mile) costs around 15 times what it does in Spain (), France (£31m per mile) or Germany (£34m per mile). High Speed 2 (HS2) was meant to cut journey times between London and Manchester to just over an hour.
If Reeves wants Britain to grow, she must free us to take risks

Nov 15, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Dumitriu

Rachel Reeves spoke to City leaders at Mansion House Credit: Jordan Pettitt/PA The UK has been regulating for risk, but not regulating for growth.” Not the words of a radical free marketeer, but our Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking to city bigwigs at Mansion House this week. Reeves was referring specifically to the regime of financial regulation introduced after the 2008 financial crash, but her words apply to almost every area of regulation in Britain. At the heart of the...
Don't switch off clean power

Nov 12, 2024 | samdumitriu.com | Sam Dumitriu

Britain used to be a nuclear superpower. In 1932, the atom was first split in Britain. In 1956, Britain opened the world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear reactor. Less than ten years later, it had built 21 more. As late as 1965, Britain had more nuclear reactors than the rest of the world combined. Yet Britain hasn’t completed a new nuclear power station in almost thirty years and most of our remaining fleet is set to be taken offline in the next few years.
How red tape holds back nuclear power in Britain

Oct 25, 2024 | samdumitriu.com | Sam Dumitriu

The impressive UK Day One think tank recently surveyed 43 leading British experts on economic growth (plus myself). One, perhaps surprising, finding from the research was that the experts surveyed listed ‘nuclear power’ as the number two priority area that the government ought to invest its time and political capital in. Why did experts on growth put ‘increasing nuclear energy production’ so high? One reason might be the UK’s high industrial energy costs.
Obsessive safetyism will leave the country bankrupt

Oct 16, 2024 | msn.com | Sam Dumitriu

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Obsessive safetyism will leave the country bankrupt

Oct 16, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Dumitriu

Martyn’s law was introduced after the terrorist attack on the Manchester arena Credit: Julian Simmonds Question: What unites the Government, the Opposition, and that fine fast food establishment McDonald’s? Answer: The idea that every single venue across the country with a capacity of more than 200 people ought to have a terrorism prevention plan. The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act, better known as Martyn’s Law, passed its Second Reading in Parliament on Monday with cross-party...
What's wrong with the case against local power pricing?

Sep 19, 2024 | samdumitriu.com | Sam Dumitriu

The tide is turning against Britain’s single national electricity price. At Prime Minister’s Questions two weeks ago, PM Keir Starmer told Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael that the status quo where Shetland’s bills are high despite hosting the UK’s largest onshore wind farm “is not acceptable.” He joins Ofgem, the Citizens Advice Bureau, and the National Grid’s Energy System Operator in pushing for change.
Where the wind blows

Sep 3, 2024 | samdumitriu.com | Sam Dumitriu

Britain’s most productive onshore wind farm, Viking, just became operational. Located in the windiest part of the UK, Shetland, Viking’s 103 turbines have a combined capacity of 443MW - enough to power 500,000 homes. This is, for the most part, a good news story about more clean domestic energy coming onto our grid. It highlights the remarkable progress in wind turbine technology.