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Peter Foster

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Sep 7

Interesting story. Industries that would never have grown so big without freedom of movement (fruit growing for EG) now reshaping.

"‘Cucumber capital’ growers selling up as #Brexit and energy crisis hits Britain’s vegetable industry."/1

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Not saying necessarily that's a good bad thing.

Bad perhaps if you own/love the business (tho you might benefit from selling land for housing)...not clear whether good/bad for UK prices as we (presumably) import more. /2

Probably bad for the EU workers who made a living working in the glass houses...although tight labour markets in the EU mean there are likely alternatives closer to home /3

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Peter Foster

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Sep 2

@trussliz

Has a prime minister approached the threshold of power with lower expectations than @trussliz?

It's already been a brutal six years for business, since #Brexit, but it is genuinely hard to be optimistic about what comes next. A quick thread/1

ft.com/content/d68468…

@trussliz

@trussliz Usually the arrival of a new PM is a moment pregnant with possibility -- even those sceptical of the new broom can allow themselves a moment of optimism that reset and renewal is a possibility - that was true for me with both @theresa_may and @BorisJohnson /2

@trussliz

@trussliz @theresa_may @BorisJohnson When @theresa_may became leader, it was possible to think that a Remainer who had taken a hard line on immigration and had never evinced much fondness for Brussels, might manage to build a middle way forward on #Brexit. She failed. /3

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Peter Foster

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Aug 8

🚨🚨Charities are increasingly underpinning the UK’s social safety net as cost of living crisis bites — but that’s problematic. Because a) charities are getting squeezed too. b) poorest places often get least charitable support /1

on.ft.com/3JCdwW2

I think this phenomenon isn’t well enough understood/reported.

Benefits are shrinking, inflation hits them further, while reducing spending of poorest.

Local govt was cut 30pc in real terms in austerity.

So charity steps in…but what does that mean?/2

@theboysmithy

Well these three Alan Smith @theboysmithy tell the story…worth looking at. Particularly the distribution of charitable giving /3

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Peter Foster

@pmdfoster

Jul 14

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🚨🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺💊💉💊💉🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨🚨UK lags EU in authorising new medicines after #Brexit - my latest via @FT ⁦⁦@hannahkuchler⁩

A take of Brexit reality, though not in truth that unsurprising. Quick thread…/1 on.ft.com/3Okoctj

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@FT @hannahkuchler First the analysis by @jgbarlow2010 prof at @ImperialBiz et al.

Their audit of "novel" drugs authorisatiions in 2021 found that only 35 so-called novel medicines were approved for use in the UK... 2021

...compared with 40 in the EU

....and 52 in the US. /2

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@FT @hannahkuchler @jgbarlow2010 @ImperialBiz This isn't that surprising, as I say, since ther UK is only 2.4% of global health spend versus 22% in the EU.

So market size makes the paperwork less worthwhile. Also the NHS is a nighmare and NICE, the rationing/approvals body, doesn't fund some new meds /3

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Peter Foster

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Jul 8

@BorisJohnson

So. @BorisJohnson is out. The politicians who did most to deliver #Brexit, both in 2016 and 2019.

I've read lots of the political obits, but my takeaway isn't about his charisma & bonhomie etc, it's about how Brexit required a chronic state of dishonesty to set in... /1

@BorisJohnson

@BorisJohnson First, I can understand why Johnson feels hard done by. He really did make #Brexit happen - I recall a John Curtice
@whatukthinks briefing soon after where he said that, so far as it was ever possible to be certain, the data showd Johnson tipped the balance /2

@BorisJohnson

@BorisJohnson @whatukthinks So it is 'Boris's Brexit' in many ways -- and it became ever more so, as he used Brexit as the vehicle to bring himself to Downing Street.

To get there, he jettisoned the centre-right of the Tory Party (Philip Hammond and 20 others en route) and tacked to the Farragist fringe/3

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Peter Foster

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Jul 5

@Gus_ODonnell

🚨🚨Away from the clownshow...why charities need the same kind of support to boost productivity as SMEs, per @Gus_ODonnell @ProBonoEcon @bethebusiness chair Charlie Mayfield...charity sector now takes £15bn/pa in govt grants and contracts, employ 900k+ /1

ft.com/content/659f8d…

@Kev_Parkinson

So take the example of @Kev_Parkinson the ceo of @FirstStepsED an eating disorder charity that has govt contracts and is a frontline healthcare provider...digitisation has boosted consultation per counsellor per day from five to six...more help to more people for better value/2

@guidedogs

It's a similar story from @guidedogs COO @peteosborne12 who is trying to reduce time/wastage in supply chain of guide dogs...they breed 2,000 puppies a year of which only 1,000 make the grade. How to improve that...waste less time and money, provide more dogs for users? /3

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