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David Lawrence
@dc_lawrence
Cofounder @britishprogress, columnist @ArguablyMag. Abundance is the way out of austerity. Previously Labour PPC, @ChathamHouse & @JesusOxford. Views my own.
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    David Lawrence
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    What should Labour's political economy be? In my contribution to "hot essay summer", I argue that Labour should define itself as pro-work, and anti-slop. Good work is productive, the best that slop can be is distracting. Slop gives the impression of frenetic activity, but
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    David Lawrence
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    Jan 27, 2025
    When you graduated decades ago but you're still stuck in a London rental with flatmates and IKEA furniture
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    Kvist
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    Jan 26, 2025
    This picture is so Scandinavian 😎 The president of Finland and the PMs of Norway, Sweden and Denmark dining together - I love it.
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    David Lawrence
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    Aug 6, 2019
    Lib Dems
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    Joey Hansen
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    Aug 6, 2019
    Who would buy this product?
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    David Lawrence
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    Sep 18, 2025
    Probably not worth the £30 billion US tech investment in the North East then
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    JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU
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    Sep 17, 2025
    Cost to Taxpayers of Trump State Visit and Banquet - £15million
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    David Lawrence
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    Dec 28, 2024
    100%. The success of the Elizabeth Line should make us wonder: what other latent demand is lying hidden, just waiting for the right infrastructure to be built?
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    David Lawrence
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    Feb 27, 2025
    If you thought Heathrow's third runway debate symbolised everything wrong with Britain's infrastructure policy, wait till you hear about Gatwick... Gatwick has had two runways since 1979. However, due to its very British planning agreement, it is only allowed to use one. 🧵
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    David Lawrence
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    Nov 13, 2025
    A British company (yes, the same one that helped save Europe from fascism) building the energy technology of the future while providing jobs to communities in Wales? We love to see it 👏
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    Politics UK
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    Nov 13, 2025
    🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced Wylfa in North Wales will host the UK’s first small modular nuclear reactors The Government will invest over £2.5bn and the initial three reactors will power around 3m homes from the mid-2030s
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    David Lawrence
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    Apr 22, 2020
    My Chinese grandparents lived through the cultural revolution and great famine. Communism destroyed lives and millions still live with its trauma today. It's not funny, it's not a meme, and Labour's founders understood that it had to be defeated, not glorified.
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    London Young Labour
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    Apr 22, 2020
    Today we celebrate 150 years since the birth of revolutionary and theorist, Lenin. His legacy and the legacy of the Russian revolution still inspires millions around the world to fight. For peace and socialism!
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    David Lawrence
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    Jul 19, 2024
    France and the UK are in some ways opposite economies that could learn a lot from each other. France gets many of the basics right. It builds infrastructure quickly and cheaply, made a good bet on nuclear, invested in their industrial capacity and have access to the world's
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    Aaron Bastani
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    Jul 18, 2024
    Paris is killing London. & France is doing so much better than the UK. GDP is smaller (slightly) because they work less. Zero carbon electricity, high speed rail almost everywhere, & a much better industrial base. A lot of people are saying it!
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    David Lawrence
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    Sep 20, 2025
    I really hope a team in the UK Home Office is working overtime this weekend, to design a visa & relocation package for phenomenally highly paid US tech workers who need to leave (and internationals who now can't move to the US). Incredibly low hanging fruit for UK prosperity.
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    David Lawrence
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    Sep 19, 2022
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    People saying 'ah, but that's because pound was strong', which is true, but a strong £ is a feature of a strong economy and meant imports, inputs and travel were cheaper for Brits than non-Brits. Imagine how much cheaper energy would be if we had a strong £ today.
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    David Lawrence
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    Oct 7, 2025
    Imagine we found *literal gold* underneath British soil. What would stop us mining it? You guessed it, UK planning law! As covered in @TheEconomist self-imposed rules are stopping us accessing critical minerals in Tyrone, NI (meanwhile we import critical minerals from China)
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    David Lawrence
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    Jan 27, 2025
    The Oxford-Cambridge 'Arc' is one of the most innovative and productive areas in the world. It's also one of the hardest places to build things - thanks to self-imposed planning constraints. Labour has set itself the challenge of delivering where previous governments failed 🧵
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    Financial Times
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    Jan 27, 2025
    Labour's decision to back the Oxford-Cambridge Arc marks a return to political favour for a scheme that was shelved three years ago on.ft.com/40pqUFC
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    David Lawrence
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    Jan 29, 2025
    What's that? Oh just the Chancellor announcing 3 radical growth policies on which the previous 6 Conservative administrations dithered and prevaricated.
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