Free Lunch: How to help the left-behind

Beyond redistributive and labour market policies, consider Simon Tilford’s analysis of what ails the British economy. Tilford rightly diagnoses the UK as economically middling by west European standards, in particular in terms of productivity. He blames supply side problems including poorer skills (numeracy and literacy), scarcer housing and more meagre transport infrastructure investment than the other large west European economies...

...Tilford adds two less narrowly economic problems — political centralisation and corporate governance — which, again, are fully in the hands of British politicians to solve.