On Monday 27th February, the Free Enterprise Group and Institute of Economic Affairs held a joint event, looking at the central question of politics today: the growth challenge.
Fiscal and monetary policy can no longer be relied upon to stimulate the economy. Fundamental structural reform is needed to maintain and improve the UK’s competitiveness.
At the Growth Forum MPs and independent experts came together to look at how to improve infrastructure and education, reduce taxes and regulation, and reform public services. The statements from the event are from individual MPs, the IEA, and external bodies. These are the contributors’ own views and do not constitute a FEG position.
The Free Enterprise Group is a group of Conservative MPs, dedicated to recasting the argument about free enterprise for a new age. Britain’s success has been built on free enterprise. Yet Britain is now 83rd in the world for regulation, 94th for taxation and is struggling to compete internationally on education and infrastructure. Conservatives need to engage the argument or risk losing the debate to a tide of anti-market socialisation.
The Institute of Economic Affairs is the UK’s original free-market think-tank, founded in 1955. Its mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.
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