Matt Bevington

Matt Bevington

Matt is a Practice Director at Global Counsel . He previously worked at a thinktank in London and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He tweets at @matt_bevington.
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Matt Bevington

Rebuilding the Regulatory Ecosystem

What regulatory reforms should a pro-growth Labour government adopt as it seeks to build a more successful and fairer economy? Since 2010, the Conservatives have failed to achieve their main objective of reducing regulation while, at the same time, making the quality of regulation worse. Many of the most memorable

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Lisa Nandy on left, looking at signpost which reads "future". Backdrop of a map of UK.
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Matt Bevington

“All In”— a signpost, not a roadmap, to a better future

Britain isn’t working. That is the inciting claim of Labour shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy’s new book, All In: How We Build a Country That Works. In the ensuing 200 pages, Nandy lays out a litany of public policy failures that have afflicted the UK in the Thatcher and

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Matt Bevington

Fear of SNP influence will not win the Conservatives the next election

Talk of coalitions is back. Following the local elections, the received wisdom (and some polling evidence) suggests that we are heading for a hung parliament after the next general election in 2024. In response, the Spectator’s James Forsyth reported recently that some Conservatives were advocating a return to the party’s

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