Roger Lee

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

And that sounds to me like more regulations.

Where we're actually heading here is where I said at the outset, we're actually increasing the amount of regulatory burden.

We're probably going to have to increase the fiscal burden to pay for it all.

And that will weigh on growth.

And then there's the third element of this that I don't think has been properly talked about, is that yet again the market is faced with this fiscal uncertainty over what Burnham is going to do in his first budget.

This is the third time in this administration the market and corporates and individuals have had to second guess.

And we've already seen the number of commentary about which taxes are going up and where the tax burden is going to fall.

And so we end up

with just more of the same.

And that's really, I'm afraid, the prognosis.

I hope it works.

I sincerely hope it does work.

I hope this will be the exception to the rule, but I struggle to see where this sort of devolution has worked in the past.

France has 35,000 mayors and France is faced with a fiscal, potentially a fiscal, certainly fiscal issues, shall we say, if not a crisis.

Germany obviously has a very extensive federal system and Germany is growing less than the UK is.

It is difficult to cite examples where this devolution has worked without significant fiscal, tax and regulatory adjustments.

There are, of course, arithmetically two ways to reduce inequality, aren't they?

Yeah.

The numerator or the denominator.

It's tall poppy devolution.

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