Cover of Global Britain paper
14th June 2024
Labour’s plans for the economy once they are in power have been dressed up in words like ‘stability’, ‘investment’, and ‘security’. They represent a great leap forward – over the precipice on the edge of which the UK already teeters.
This is laid out in the Global Britain paper ‘De-coding […]
Analysis of Mais Lecture
23rd May 2024
Labour is the no-risk economic option as the outcome is certain: it’s disaster.
This is the message of my analysis of Rachel Reeves’ Mais Lecture delivered in March 2024.
The full, final version of this research can be downloaded here.
Now that a General Election has been called, it is of importance that […]
24th April 2024
You can download here the rough, first-draft version of my analysis of the 2024 Mais Lecture given by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
This summary has just been published by the Conservative Post website so I have decided to make available the current, not-totally-polished version of the full paper behind it.
In […]
Published by Global Britain
16th February 2024
Global Britain has released my report on the degree to which the economy of the Republic of Ireland is dominated by activities that reduce the tax bills of foreign multinationals.
You can download the report here.
The report dissects the two elements of tax-sparing activities:
the re-invoicing through Ireland of goods made elsewhere […]
Consultation announcement on Ofgem’s website
Published on 21st December 2023
Ofgem has put a proposal out to consultation until January 24th 2024 to permit a supplement to energy prices to compensate suppliers for customers’ bad debts. This will be the first widespread example of differential pricing based on a customer’s financial resources: good payers on metered supply […]
TSC report headline
Published on 9th December 2023
The Treasury Select Committee has issued report about the Bank of England’s digital pound project, also known as ‘Britcoin’, and a UK ‘central bank digital currency’ or ‘CBDC’.
You can download the report here
Its headlines are:
‘Britcoin’ must be introduced via primary legislation that is subject to full Parliamentary scrutiny, and […]
Cover of the report of the Future of Payments Review
Published on 8th December 2023
We have sent Joe Garner c/o HM Treasury a 5-page letter with our response to the report from the Future of Payments Review.
You can download the letter here
As Lyddon Consulting was cited as one of ‘the more than 100 organisations who contributed […]
Cover of report from the Future of Payments review
Published on 7th December 2023
The report of the Joe Garner review into the Future of Payments has been published.
You can download the report here
It is testament to severe problems in UK payments:
Card fees experienced by merchants are far higher than the cap supposedly imposed by the Interchange […]