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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Shanker Singham is a leading trade economist, competition lawyer, and policy expert, known for advising governments on free markets, regulatory reform, and trade policy, and playing a key role in shaping post-Brexit economic strategies for the UK.
In this interview, we discuss the government decisions over the past 25 years have crippled growth, increased debt, and left everyday people struggling. Singham discusses GDP per capita decline, regulatory capture, taxation failures, and why the UK is falling behind the US and even Poland. We also discuss how entrenched elites manipulate policies for their own gain, how over-regulation kills competition, and how Brexit’s economic potential is being squandered.
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0:00.0 | When you get GDP per capita and when you get this kind of growth, you change people. |
0:06.1 | They become optimistic. They become hopeful. They're thinking of how to improve the lives of themselves and their children. |
0:13.7 | They're not thinking about how do I get up in the morning, which is the danger of contraction in the way that we've seen it, is it just destroys the will of people to sort of get through the day. |
0:25.6 | And I think the British people are kind of at that base. |
0:28.6 | And it doesn't have to be this way. |
0:31.6 | And there are lots of examples all over the world where it isn't that way. |
0:36.6 | It's important to understand that we're not in this, |
0:39.2 | this, we don't have these, these feelings because it's just the way of the world. We have |
0:45.9 | these feelings because of what our governments have done to us in the last 25 years, |
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