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The Economist
The Economist
4 Mar 2025


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Britain’s government may be about to waste its best chance of success 

A bill to unblock house building and boost growth looks far too timid 

THE PARLIAMENT that passed the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was alive to the pressing need, in bomb-cratered Britain, for bricks and mortar. If the post-war governments, Labour and Tory, had a consistent north star, it was building homes. Winston Churchill, returned to office in 1951, listed his priorities as “houses, red meat and not being scuppered”.

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Britain’s capital markets are waging a war on paper

Calls are growing to modernise the country’s shareholding system

Britain halves its foreign-aid budget

Labour will have to choose which promises to break

Does Britain’s nuclear deterrent have a Trump-shaped problem?

Higher defence spending is just the start of a painful reassessment