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Flint Briefing Call with John Penrose MP on UK Digital Competition Policy

Giles Wilkes Karla Perca López Tim Pitt

This briefing call discusses the government’s plans for reform of competition and regulation, in particular through the upcoming Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Rights Bill. Chaired by Partner Tim Pitt who is joined by Conservative MP John Penrose and two Flint Competition and Regulation experts, Partner Karla Perca López and Specialist Partner Giles Wilkes. You […]

13 Jan, 2023

The Flint Podcast

Giles Wilkes Kiran Horwich Tim Pitt

In the aftermath of the Budget and Spending Review, Flint experts provide their analysis of the Chancellor’s statement, talk through its political and economic implications and what this all means to the business community. Flint PartnerKiran Horwich chairs the discussion between Partner Tim Pitt(former Special Adviser to Chancellors Sajid Javid and Philip Hammond) and Specialist PartnerGiles Wilkes (former Business […]

01 Nov, 2021

The budget - will Rishi Sunak bail out Boris Johnson?

Key points: For the first time Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver a fiscal event no longer dominated by Covid support. The Spending Review and Budget should finally put some flesh on the bones of the government’s core agenda: levelling up and net zero. But the prime minister needs (and wants) to address a range of […]

05 Oct, 2021

Flint News & Flint in the Media

Tim Pitt quoted in The Telegraph

Partner Tim Pitt was quoted in The Telegraph article 'Sunak will have to ‘increase taxes or cut public spending to keep national debt pledge’.

17 Jul, 2023

Tim Pitt on Today, Radio 4

Partner Tim Pitt weighs in on what Chancellor Jeremy Hunt may discuss in his meeting with Mortgage lenders as inflation and interest rates skyrocket. Listen from minute 25.10

23 Jun, 2023

Tim Pitt quoted in The Telegraph

Partner Tim Pitt tells The Telegraph that “ultimately, what you’d be doing is asking people who are less well off who don’t own their own home to subsidise those who are better off and are on the housing ladder, during a cost of living crisis.”

21 Jun, 2023

Tim Pitt on BBC One's Panorama

Partner Tim Pitt appeared on Panorama's "Surviving the Pay Squeeze" on BBC One which looks into the current discontent surrounding the cost of living.

21 Mar, 2023

Tim Pitt quoted in BBC News

Partner Tim Pitt says "any economist would tell you the number one thing you can do to incentivise business investment, and therefore drive growth, is to have stability and certainty and strong institutions," in BBC's news story 'Stalling wage growth since 2008 costs £11,000 a year, says think tank'

20 Mar, 2023

Tim Pitt quoted in the FT

Partner Tim Pitt quoted in the FT on the UK Budget.

14 Mar, 2023

Tim Pitt quoted in the FT

Flint Partner, Tim Pitt's synopsis of the Conservative economic principles for the path ahead was quoted in the FT weekend article.

14 Nov, 2022

Tim Pitt quoted in BBC news article

Flint Partner, Tim Pitt's view on the fragile state of public finances, post-mini-Budget, was quoted in a BBC news article, stating "more fiscal conservatism" is needed "not less" [...]

10 Nov, 2022

Tim Pitt quoted in The Times

“It is easy to dismiss the failed experiment that was Trussonomics as a brief aberration, a moment when Conservative economics temporarily lost its bearings before Rishi Sunak returned to restore order” [...]

09 Nov, 2022

Tim Pitt quoted in the FT

Flint Partner, Tim Pitt's smart paper on the Conservative's economic Road to Credibility was quoted in the Financial Times online.

09 Nov, 2022

Tim Pitt quoted in the weekend's Financial Times

Flint Partner, Tim Pitt was quoted in this weekend’s Financial Times on the uphill battle the new Chancellor will face to keep the public finances on a sustainable path.

15 Aug, 2022

Tim Pitt's FT article

Tim has written for the Financial Times on why the next Prime Minister needs to look beyond Margaret Thatcher and draw on a much broader history of Conservative economic thought as they look to tackle the challenges ahead - and that while pursuing higher growth is essential, using it as an excuse to duck difficult […]

12 Aug, 2022

Tim Pitt on CNBC International

Chancellor Sunak "does have a little bit of wiggle room... but he is under huge pressure, politically and economically, to deliver a generous package of support today."

30 Mar, 2022

Tim Pitt on BBC - Newsnight

Discussing the Spring Statement.

30 Mar, 2022

Tim Pitt in the Telegraph

Tim Pitt, Flint Partner and former adviser to Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid was a guest on last week's Chopper's Politics podcast discussing how the autumn tax and spending choices are shaping up, and why stories about No10 and No11 being at loggerheads are a refreshing sign of the world getting back to normal.

23 Aug, 2021

Tim Pitt on BBC's Newsnight

Tim Pitt, Flint Partner and former senior adviser to chancellors Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid was on Newsnight discussing the outlook for public spending.

23 Jun, 2021

Tim Pitt in the Telegraph

Tim Pitt, Flint Partner and former senior adviser to chancellors Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid wrote a piece in the Telegraph on the choice facing the Chancellor come the autumn - and why he shouldn't worry (too much) about becoming Anthony Barber...

23 Jun, 2021

Tim Pitt, The Telegraph

In his latest piece for the Telegraph, Flint Partner Tim Pitt argues that the Chancellor is right to reinforce the Conservatives’ focus on fiscal prudence.

12 Feb, 2021

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