Peter Kyle MP Articles

More detail, less rhetoric, is needed on industrial policy

Brexit or not, it is overdue that Britain has a more Germanic economic model – and the political consensus behind it, argues Peter Kyle  If Angela Merkel had lost the recent German election a lot would have changed. But every business in Germany knows one thing that...

Dignity in their final years

While expectations were already low for this year’s autumn statement, the conventional wisdom was that the chancellor would have at least have to do something for social care. After all, the government’s own regulator of care services, the Care Quality Commission, had...

Social care at a tipping point

Back in January, I dedicated my first Westminster Hall debate to the subject of the future of care homes in England. At that time their prospects looked precarious, with an even growing funding gap and the effects of the increase in the minimum wage expected to hit...

Osborne fails his own tests – again

Today was George Osborne’s eighth budget and, like all that preceded it, the political rhetoric and sweeping statements failed to disguise a total absence of policies which would set Britain on the path for sustainable growth, harnessing our productivity and economic...