The UK's chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and R&D relative to OECD peers is a primary cause of its productivity gap.
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The National Living Wage should rise to £15 an hour within this parliament, in line with living cost evidence.
Public sector austerity from 2010 to 2019 caused lasting damage to UK public services and long-run economic capacity.
The UK AI Safety Institute should be given independent statutory authority rather than operating purely under government direction.
Government use of automated decision-making that affects individuals' rights should require mandatory transparency and right of appeal.
UK data protection rules post-Brexit should remain fully equivalent to the EU's GDPR to protect UK-EU data flows.
Requiring age verification for social media platforms is justified even if it creates privacy trade-offs.
The Online Safety Act's provisions on legal-but-harmful content set a problematic precedent for government oversight of online speech.
The UK's light-touch post-Brexit approach to AI regulation risks enabling harms that the EU AI Act is designed to prevent.
The UK should adopt binding AI safety rules rather than relying on voluntary codes and industry self-regulation.
North Sea windfall tax revenues should be ring-fenced for clean energy infrastructure investment and a just transition fund for affected workers.
Britain's net-zero credibility is undermined by expanding Heathrow airport capacity while rail investment is delayed.
UK farmers should receive direct payments for peatland restoration and habitat recovery, even where this reduces agricultural output.
The UK's Sixth Carbon Budget requires emissions reductions significantly faster than existing policy will deliver.
Planning rules in England should be reformed to allow onshore wind development — currently one of the cheapest new electricity sources available.
Heat pump grants should be increased substantially so that installation costs are no longer a barrier for median-income households.
Issuing new North Sea oil and gas licences is incompatible with the UK's legally binding 2050 net-zero commitment under the Climate Change Act.
Singapore should pilot portfolio-based university admissions as an alternative to exam-only selection for arts and social science programmes.
Schools should teach financial literacy and civic education as core subjects from secondary school.
University places should be substantially expanded given Singapore's knowledge-economy needs.
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