Roger Lee

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Merryn Talks Money · What Is 'Manchesterism'— And Will It Boost Britain's Economy? · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

It's free markets, obviously founded by Anthony Fisher at the IEA, championed by Keith Joseph and obviously the greatest exponents.

politically with Mrs. Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

And that overarching philosophy then was applied through the 80s and obviously then through the 90s.

And that begrudgingly was adopted by New Labour perhaps, or they accepted the need of that.

in the 2000s, but that came to a crushing halt in the financial crisis because it was quite clear that free markets, unbridled free markets, unregulated free markets in the financial system effectively bankrupted the world.

And the state in the UK and in Europe and in the United States then had to intervene again.

And so we start the next great arc of history, which is what we are seeing now, which is the ever-increasing role of the state in our lives, to the extent that the state thought it could control a virus, to what we have now is the state will deliver growth.

And so what we are seeing here, I think I would suggest, is perhaps...

I don't know whether it's the final, but it's certainly the latest iteration of statism in practice as part of this great arc of politics, this competition between these two competing ideologies.

I think that is the context of what we're looking at.

It is the latest iteration of statism in an attempt to drive growth.

And the evidence would suggest that that growth is going to be elusive.

It's generally accepted by most economists that you need three economic pillars to grow an economy.

You need low regulation, low tax burden and low energy prices.

We of course in the UK have got the complete opposite of those three and so then why are we surprised when we struggle to grow?

We increase the regulatory burden.

We increase the tax burden.

We increase the energy burden.

And why are we surprised that growth slows even more?

You then look at the United States, who are doing what would genuinely be accepted as pro-growth, supply-side and fiscal economics.

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