Philippe Legrain

China is a rising economic power, the European Union a declining one. So Britain’s future is best served by hitching its wagon to Beijing rather than to Brussels. As last week’s high-profile visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping shows, Britain can prosper as a global trading power outside the EU. Not so fast. The EU […]

My latest column for Project Syndicate on how the eurozone and refugee crises are causing Europe to disintegrate, with the chances that Britain will vote to leave the EU rising.

My piece for City AM

D’un point de vue économique, les chiffres récents de l’immigration constituent une excellente nouvelle. Mais d’un point de vue politique, ils sont plus problématiques. On ne peut pas dire que le gouvernement fasse preuve de sagesse, lorsqu’il promet de réduire de plusieurs dizaines de milliers un chiffre qui, en grande partie, ne dépend pas de […]

My column for CapX

An excellent pamphlet by Jeremy Cliffe, The Economist’s new Bagehot columnist, explains how a number of long-term trends are likely to create a cosmopolitan liberal majority in Britain. This poses big challenges, and big opportunities, for existing political parties. I wrote a response to the pamphlet for Policy Network and argued in CapX that while Labour […]

I participated in a debate in City AM about this with Steven Woolfe, UKIP’s immigration spokesman.

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My piece for CapX

Britain is becoming more like London: its people are increasingly diverse, urban, university-educated, international, and socially liberal. This cosmopolitan future is overwhelmingly a good thing, and one which today’s politicians neglect at their peril. That is the essential message of Jeremy Cliffe’s clear-eyed and persuasive paper, which ought to be carefully read and digested by […]

My column for CapX

My piece for Prospect

Britain’s election today is wide open. But whether we end up with a Conservative or Labour-led government, the SNP looks set to be a big winner in the years ahead. My column for Foreign Policy

I’m quoted in City AM.

Britain needs to celebrate its entrepreneurial success without becoming complacent and telling itself it’s the best, but rather learn from others do better. My panel intervention at Summit: The Future of Growth. The Will to WIn – SUMMIT: The Future of Growth from Seven Hills on Vimeo.

The Independent, 24 April 2014. The crisis has tipped many into disillusionment, despair and extremism – we need a European Spring.

Paul Krugman argues that a benefit for Britain of keeping the pound is that it has been able to devalue – unlike, for instance, Spain, which is part of the euro – and illustrates the point with a chart that shows the 20% devaluation of the UK’s real exchange rate since the crisis hit.   […]

I debated the fiasco at the summit of EU leaders on 8-9 December on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight with Angela Knight, former Conservative minister and now lobbyist for the British Banking Association. Listen here

Progress, 3 February 2011. A response to Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford

Headlines from a poll this week suggested nearly half of British people think there are too many immigrants in the UK. But the findings change when people are presented with the facts. The average respondent thought 3 in 10 people in the UK are foreign-born. When told it’s actually 1 in 10, more than twothirds […]