We asked over 100 experts how Steve Reed should boost house building in Britain to get us growing again. Their number one recommendation? Densify existing urban areas.

NEW: data from Centre for Cities shows that the gulf in productivity between London and Britain's other cities has narrowed slightly. We need to build more well-connected homes for workers to give access to good jobs:

EMI seems like an efficient way to encourage growth; I would welcome an expansion of it. news.sky.com/story/reeves-p…

The Nobel prize in economics was just awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for teaching us what it is that makes economies grow. So what lessons does this have for the UK? Are the experts from our growth survey right?

Writing in the FT, Daniel Susskind argues that our focus on building homes and infrastructure clashes with Mokyr’s ideas. While I agree ideas and R&D are crucial for growth, building more homes and infrastructure is a vital prerequisite to get Britain growing. A 🧵on why 👇

If your regulatory system is blocking investment in data centres and the power supply for them, you will have lower growth.

This is great to see from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: in the AI Action Plan, I talked about the importance of making the UK the best place in the world to safely deploy new AI capabilities - sandboxes like this as a great way to make this happen👇

the government's new AI Growth Lab sandbox proposal has the potential to be one of the most impactful, pro-growth steps they can take to accelerate AI adoption -- allowing AI-first companies to scale and building UK's stake in AI value chain gov.uk/government/new…

On 30 Sep 2024, the UK closed its last coal plant. This was the day we should have ended carbon price support – an extra tax to get coal off the grid. In the Budget, Rachel Reeves has the chance to cut bills for millions + boost electrification, by ending CPS Here’s how:

Great to see Resolution Foundation also covering Carbon Price Support!

TODAY the government announced a package for infrastructure, homes and business space for the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor. The Growth Corridor could add up to £78 bn to the economy by 2035 📈 🧵Here are the big takeaways (+ the REOPENING of a railway line after 60 years)

Congratulations to Matthew Pennycook MP for taking the lead on this.

Great news! Today the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has announced steps to deliver needed homes more quickly in London, as we suggested in July. Congratulations to all the YIMBY allies who have worked hard to get this through!

Always fun to see Gell-Mann amnesia in process