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U.K. Government announces shift to 10 year R&D budgets - another core recommendation of the Blair-Hague New National Purpose reports implemented.

🎉Excited to share that today I started a secondment to DESNZ as Principal Policy Advisor for Industrial Strategy. 👩🏼‍🏭Net zero is the economic opportunity of the 21st century so I'm delighted to be joining the team ahead of the publication of the Industrial Strategy White Paper.

As John Fingleton undertakes a review of nuclear regulations for government, this by Alex Chalmers is a worthwhile read worksinprogress.co/issue/the-bad-…

Love this from Simon French in The Times and The Sunday Times

6. Reform capital gains tax. Right now real investors pay too much CGT - they're taxed on inflationary gains, which aren't gains at all. Others, who didn't make an actual investment, pay too little tax - 24% is much lower than the 45% top income tax rate. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/16/how…

The insistence by Miliband that the world is crying out for British climate leadership reminds of this excellent article in the Economist last year on "the last imperialists"

London has fallen. How can the UK have a dynamic, thriving economy when it makes more money selling businesses than growing them? This is a deep structural problem, requiring pension & capital market reform. on.ft.com/3SI9AZc Wise’s wake-up call for London

Allow👏🏽the👏🏽Pension Protection Fund 👏🏽to 👏🏽be 👏🏽a 👏🏽public 👏🏽sector 👏🏽consolidator👏🏽 on.ft.com/4kVj1AD Defined benefit pension reform will spur limited UK investment, officials warn

The problem here isn't that local gov units have different apps - it's that our local authorities are too small, and bear no relationship to local transport/commuting/labour market geographies. It's the same type of problem as giving parish councils control over transport.

After a year of campaigning on the issue, the government have just announced that 200 acres of land next to Sellafield in my constituency will be released to build new nuclear. This is a game changer for West Cumbria, energy security and new industry! 🧵 whitehavennews.co.uk/news/25226850.…

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"Government in the Age of Superintelligence” is viral reading, not just for AI policy wonks but for everyone working in or interested in politics & policy. Ed de Minckwitz was a senior advisor across national security and whole-of-government strategy, and the report is endorsed

This great news for the area. Opens the door for investment, jobs and a bright future for the community.