The IEA’s Director-General Mark Littlewood has been quoted in The Times discussing the new Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg’s free market credentials.

Mark said that Rees-Mogg is “instinctively opposed to heavy-handed regulation . . . He once observed to me that if he was seeking to set up Somerset Capital today, he’s not sure it would have been possible or viable due to the sheer growth in financial regulation over the years.”

The article goes on to discuss the prospect of Rees-Mogg fighting a war on red tape in his new role.

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