The Board of Trustees of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is delighted to announce that Daniel Hannan, Lord Hannan … ...

Commenting on the inflation figures, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs said: “The jump in UK inflation from 3.0% to 3.3% in March is bad news but not quite as bad as ...

Do Brits really want economic growth? Britain’s growth problem is well understood in Westminster. But making the case for growth and the reforms needed to deliver it has proven far more challenging.

A major poll of 3,001 British voters examines why Britain's economy has underperformed, what the public believes is holding ...

Sales of legal tobacco have more than halved since 2021, according to an analysis of new data from HMRC. Tobacco sales figures published by the government on Friday revealed that the number of ...

Since 2019, there have been many attempts to put a cost on achieving net zero by 2050, with wildly different results. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has repeatedly revised down its estimates for ...

On 2 December, King’s College London’s Politics Society organised a debate on the question of whether Britain needs a wealth tax. Former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable and Prof Josh Ryan-Collins ...

New analysis suggests gross costs of net zero could exceed even the highest official predictions of £7.6 trillion Official estimates of the cost of net zero are often driven by “fantasy assumptions” ...

In the early 2010s, a number of campaign groups made the case for the introduction of what they called a ‘living wage’, with rates substantially above the statutory national minimum wage. These groups ...

What is the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)? Let’s start with the basics. The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) is designed to encourage a reduction in C02 produced by both large industry and ...

This article was first published on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack. Official figures recently published by HMRC indicate a huge rise in illicit tobacco sales in the UK since 2021. The ...

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IEA_Kichanova-Beyond-Freeports_V2_Digital.pdf The Freeports strategy announced by the previous government attempted to ...