My media highlights – June 2022
Below is the top-line summary of my media coverage for June 2022. In my fortnightly Conservative Home column - 28th June - I discuss how wage-price spirals work. I wrote for CapX - 28th June - on why lifting the bankers bonus cap is the right thing to do for the City of London. I was quoted in The...
BBC Radio 4 The Week in Westminster interview
It was good to be on The Week in Westminster with The Telegraph's Ben Riley Smith and Mariana Mazzucato discussing the cost of living crisis, economic policy options, and monetary policy. Listen back here, from 15:45-21:55.
BBC Newsnight interview with Mariana Mazzucato
It was good to be on Newsnight again tonight with Mariana Mazzucato discussing labour shortages, the EU, and tightening monetary policy in the face of record inflation. Watch here from 13:00-20:30.
Spectator TV interview with Sir Howard Davies
I was on Spectator TV with Cindy Yu and Sir Howard Davies to discuss his great new book 'The Chancellors'. In only 13 mins we discuss the Treasury, its faults, group-think and current economic policy. Watch from 40:00 minutes here.
BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview
I was on the Today programme discussing today’s GDP figures and the policy implications. We have already seen some fiscal easing and more is needed and is inevitable. Temporary cuts in tax components of fuel and energy are needed soon. A potential income tax in Budget and suspending the...
Channel 4 News interview with Torsten Bell
I was on Channel 4 News last night discussing the outlook for the UK economy. We need a pro-business pro-growth agenda and lower taxes are essential for this. However, it is only part of the solution. The best way to reduce the budget deficit is through stronger economic growth. Watch back here.
BBC Newsnight interview
Good to be on Newsnight again tonight to discuss the UK economy. One of the points I made was that the Treasury exaggerates the debt service problem and worries too much about the inflation component of fiscal policy. You can watch it back here from 20:25 minutes.
LBC Ian Dale interview
It was great to be on the Ian Dale show on LBC tonight discussing the cost of living crisis and possible policy options. Targeted help to those in need is essential and should be the focus. But also there is a need to help the squeezed middle with an income tax cut.
OMIF Sovereign Debt Institute panel
Good to speak to a packed room on the opening panel at Clothmakers’ Hall organised by OMFIF. I was delighted to join my friend, the great Deputy Government of Central Bank of Kenya, Sheila M’Mbijjewe & Duncan Pieterse, Deputy Director of National Treasury of South Africa & UBS’...
CPS webinar: Bank of England – Are we better off after 25 years of independence?
The webinar can be watched here.