Matt Clifford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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which, you know, and there's some people that, you know, I gave a speech on this last year and I think I'm a very self-critical person.
I'm obsessed about the, you know, negative responses to it.
And one of us is like, this just trickled down economics.
This is just like Liz Truss with better PR or whatever.
And it's like, no, actually, some of the people who will object, who would object most to a truly pro-growth program
are the currently rich.
They're the people that benefit from, I mean, planning lawyers, people who make their income through renting out artificially restricted supply of housing.
This is not rich versus poor.
It's about extraction versus creation.
My most radical belief is I do believe this can still be the richest country in the world per capita.
I think actually the funny thing is if you were an alien coming to Earth and looking at the world, you'd say the weirdest country in the world economically is the UK.
And the reason it's weird is that if you look at a textbook, like where does economic growth come from, you have the basic layer of got to get the rule of law right.
Okay, fine.
But then you get to the kind of intermediate layers of infrastructure, et cetera.
The icing on the cake is frontier industries, really difficult knowledge work.
The UK has all the hard bits right.
We have the most incredible frontier industries in the world.
We're just really messing up the middle layers.
We're just not building housing.
We're not building infrastructure.
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