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But where's the growth agenda?

In light of all the other stuff dominating the headlines, it might seem churlish to ask, but where the heck is the growth agenda?

Over the past two years, about the only thing growing economy wise has been inflation.  

However much extra money the current Chancellor allows the Bank of England to print, it has yet to produce more prosperity.

Perhaps the print-more-money-and-pray approach we inherited from Gordon Brown isn't enough after all?

So, where's the kind of supply side reform you'd expect from a centre right administration?  I am not sure that liberalising planning rules quite covers it. 

Where's the serious de-regulatory reform you'd hope for after all those years of Blair-Brown micro controls?  Too many businessmen and women in Britain today have to seek permission from remote officialdom in order to create wealth.  Where's the plan to change that?     

Please tell me someone in Whitehall has been on the case these past couple of years? 

I know that we inherited an economic mess from Labour.  But that is all the more reason to have a coherent supply-side policy to allow more wealth creation.  Where is it?

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