Politics Update #44: Patrick Minford: No UK Growth for Now

This note is a summary of remarks given at a Primary event by the economist Prof. Patrick Minford; he gave his view on what the abandonment of the Truss/Kwarteng tax plans meant for the outlook of UK growth and argued they could have succeeded with better planning – but also with a Treasury more willing to cooperate. Downbeat on the fiscal agenda of Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, his discussion continued with examination of what ‘mandates’ meant when prime ministers could change without voting and the dynamic between elected officials and civil servants was so altered as of late.