In Conversation with Steve Baker MP | #ThinkTent2021

IEA Director General Mark Littlewood interviews Steve Baker MP (@Steve Baker). A leading backbench MP, Steve is Deputy Chair of the Covid Recovery Group, former Chair of the European Research Group and a former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

00:00 – Opening Remarks
01:40 – Are the Tories now High Tax High Spend
02:48 – The Pandemic, Lockdown and The National Debt
10:20 – National Insurance Increases and Social Care Funding
12:55 – Socialism
13:25 – Are we seizing Brexit opportunities?
15:30 – Northern Ireland Protocol
17:10 – Post-Brexit Regulatory Opportunties
19:30 – Loss of Liberties through Lockdowns
25:20 – Net Zero
32:00 – Extinction Rebelion and Fuel Poverty
35:40 – State of Discourse and Political Polarisation
38:40 – Do the Tories believe in Freedom?
42:00 – Open Floor Questions