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Not convinced by the claim that the UK’s underinvestment can be entirely explained by excess regulation.

Is it more right than wrong? I would say yes (although I concede that the emphasis on deindustrialisation isn’t helpful).

The fact that Burnham is forcing people to write about this stuff and put their cards on the table is good. We are at least debating some alternatives now. www.ft.com/content/8c0e... Britain cannot build its future by returning to the 1970s

Absolutely extraordinary to write as if "lower taxes and a smaller state" was a futuristic experiment that has never been tried. Thatcherfuturism

Wolf and Haldane have reputations as good thinkers, but honestly, I have read and written a lot on this topic over the past decade and I don't know a single economist who would agree with any of these points. They're just completely divorced from mainstream thinking.

The implication of these claims is that France Spain and Italy are less regulated economies than the UK

These are political problems; they show up as legal and regulatory problems because that's how accountability sinks work. Not only that, the political problems are largely a result of erosion of trust, which is a result of the behaviour of developers, which is a result of deregulation.

Can anyone tell me what the Conservative ‘growth plan’ is — cuts to IHT and 70bn of benefit cuts that wont happen. Did I miss some further details?

It didn’t work for Osborne with rates at zero but it’s bound to work for Badenoch with rates at 5%. (Just might work for us meme etc)