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No time for Adam Smith at the Treasury, I fear

Keen as ever to help the government, I recently tabled a question asking if the Chancellor or his team of ministers had read that Adam Smith fellow, author of The Wealth of Nations. 

Smith's book is full of corking ideas if you're a little stumped for a growth strategy.  Plus it has been around since 1776, so hopefully someone in the Treasury has had the time to pop out and get a copy.

I just got this reply from Mark Hoban MP;

“Treasury Ministers and officials consider a wide range of view from a variety of sources to provide the historical and international context to the UK’s economic policy”.

Perhaps you can now see where the growth strategy got to?  Never let it be said that Sir Humphrey runs the Treasury.

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