Perhaps you could gather a group of traffic wardens and ask them how to build a racetrack. Or get the leaders of the Salvation Army over to suggest some cool ideas for a cocktail bar. Think up any improbable brainstorming sessions, and it will still be hard to imagine anything more awkward than the gathering of regulators Chancellor Rachel Reeves summoned to Downing Street today to give her some ideas on growth. After all, that is her job, not theirs.
Just the concept of frog-marching regulators into the Chancellor’s office and demanding ‘growth ideas’ is ridiculous
It hardly sounds like fun. The chief executives of such august sounding bodies as the Office of Rail and Road, the Competition and Markets Authority, and that happy sounding trio Ofwat, Ofcom, and Ofgem, have all been marched into No. 11 so Reeves can ask for their ideas on how to expand the economy. Labour told us during the election that the party would make the UK the fastest growing country in the G7, but with a meagre 0.1
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