The Covid-19 crisis and the virtues of an active state

In 2014, as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sought to take over AstraZeneca, the UK’s second largest ­pharmaceutical company, the British government insisted it would not intervene. David Cameron and George Osborne suggested that the bid was purely a commercial matter for shareholders and refused to ­apply a “public interest test”. …

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Economy Minister calls for urgent action over deliveries to NI

Stormont’s Economy Minister has called for urgent action from the UK Government on parcel deliveries to Northern Ireland. t followed the end of the Brexit transition period and the establishment of the Northern Ireland Protocol which affects trade to Northern Ireland from Great Britain. Diane Dodds attested to “significant confusion” …

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