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OPINION: Can regulation really support growth?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves hosts roundtable with UK regulators.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves hosts roundtable with UK regulators. Photo: Jonathan Brady – WPA Pool/Getty Images

Neil Robson has reservations about the reality of the UK Government’s ambitions for regulation.

Last month saw leaders from a number of the UK’s regulators meet with Rachel Reeves at Downing Street in order to discuss how regulation could be made more “proportionate and risk based”, compliance “less onerous”, and how to cut red tape.

The press release that followed the meeting stated