As Britain continues to overcome the worst health effects of Covid-19, “a tidal wave of unemployment and business closure is going to hit the UK economy“, writes the IEA’s Director General Mark Littlewood.

Instead of trying to keep workers in position in their present jobs, we need to make it easier for new companies to employ them argues Mark in his biweekly column for The Times. This, Mark adds will require “a loosening of restrictive employment practices and a much more benign tax and regulatory environment”.

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