Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Filmed at the Battle of Ideas festival 2023, this engaging panel and a smart audience share their insights, what they agree on and disagreements.
With the Conservatives doing badly in the polls and Labour riding high, the UK could have a new party in government in the year ahead. How will this change the relationship between the state and the private sector – and will it boost economic performance and living standards?
Is the state vs market debate moot – because the ability of the state to change things is becoming exhausted? Increasing state spending even further would have relatively little impact, but government debt is already enormous in any event. ‘Cheap money’ policies of low interest rates and quantitative easing have had to be reversed to tackle inflation.
Whoever wins the next election, what is the best way forward for the UK economy?
The speakers are:
Paul Embery - firefighter; trade unionist; columnist; author, Despised: why the modern Left loathes the working class; broadcaster
Matthew Lesh - director of public policy and communications, Institute of Economic Affairs
Ali Miraj - broadcaster; founder, the Contrarian Prize; infrastructure financier; DJ
Hilary Salt FIA, FPMI, FRSA - actuary; founder, First Actuarial
The chair is: Phil Mullan - writer, lecturer and business manager; author, Beyond Confrontation: globalists, nationalists and their discontents
This debate was filmed by volunteers working with Worldwrite. Please help ensure the charity is able to edit further debates by hitting the THANKS button above and donating whatever you can afford.
Filmed at the Battle of Ideas festival 2023, this engaging panel and a smart audience share their insights, what they agree on and disagreements.
With the Conservatives doing badly in the polls and Labour riding high, the UK could have a new party in government in the year ahead. How will this change the relationship between the state and the private sector – and will it boost economic performance and living standards?
Is the state vs market debate moot – because the ability of the state to change things is becoming exhausted? Increasing state spending even further would have relatively little impact, but government debt is already enormous in any event. ‘Cheap money’ policies of low interest rates and quantitative easing have had to be reversed to tackle inflation.
Whoever wins the next election, what is the best way forward for the UK economy?
The speakers are:
Paul Embery - firefighter; trade unionist; columnist; author, Despised: why the modern Left loathes the working class; broadcaster
Matthew Lesh - director of public policy and communications, Institute of Economic Affairs
Ali Miraj - broadcaster; founder, the Contrarian Prize; infrastructure financier; DJ
Hilary Salt FIA, FPMI, FRSA - actuary; founder, First Actuarial
The chair is: Phil Mullan - writer, lecturer and business manager; author, Beyond Confrontation: globalists, nationalists and their discontents
This debate was filmed by volunteers working with Worldwrite. Please help ensure the charity is able to edit further debates by hitting the THANKS button above and donating whatever you can afford.
