Sure, it isn\u2019t hard to quibble with some of the details. AI may not be all that it\u2019s cracked up to be, and politicians have been trying to improve vocational training for a hundred years without much success. More seriously, Sir Jeremy remains a centrist, pragmatic Tory; he instinctively plays down the scale of the opposition that a genuinely radical, reforming chancellor will face, or the extent to which \u201cthe Blob\u201d, that shadowy network of judges, quangos and civil servants, will try to block any genuine change. What Liz Truss, the woman who appointed him her chancellor, used to call \u201cthe anti-growth coalition\u201d is stronger than ever, and after five years of a Labour government, it will be even more powerful and arrogant.<\/p>\n
But those are minor flaws. Sir Jeremy isn\u2019t likely to be in office again, and the book is not a detailed blueprint. Its greatest virtue is that it brilliantly pulls together all the ways in which growth can be kick-started again, backs it up with detailed analysis, and forcefully makes the argument that there\u2019s nothing particularly difficult about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sure, it isn\u2019t hard to quibble with some of the details. AI may not be all that it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7340,84,61,5343,460,1294,4626,102277,209607,9147,180846,5438,56,1893,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-616013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-book-review","tag-business","tag-conservative-party","tag-culture","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-global-economy","tag-jeremy-hunt","tag-matthew-lynn","tag-non-fiction","tag-politics-books","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-uk-economy","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}