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Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity is a political book written by several British Conservative Party MPs and released on 13 September 2012. Its authors present a treatise, arguing that Britain should adopt a different and radical approach to business and economics or risk "an inevitable slide into mediocrity".
- Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore, Elizabeth Truss
- 2012
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity. Paperback – Illustrated, 13 Sept. 2012. Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity.
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- Kwasi Kwarteng, P. Patel, Dominic Raab
Sep 10, 2012 · Britannia Unchained can be seen as a call to end the Conservative party’s wishy-washy Cameronism. Instead, the authors recommend an approach that is economically libertarian, eurosceptic (but...
Oct 10, 2022 · Britannia Unchained is an extreme neoliberal agenda; promising a new age of freedom and prosperity built on forms of hardship that Britain spent much of the 20th Century attempting to eliminate. While capitalism without controls sounds emancipating, its spirit is fundamentally repressive.
Jun 5, 2019 · The Britannia Unchained cabinet contrasts with the approach pursued by Theresa May, who often denounced libertarianism and sought to rehabilitate the state as an economic actor. The former prime minister often framed Brexit as an opportunity to end the free movement of people from the EU.
- George Eaton
Sep 20, 2022 · In a book in 2012 called Britannia Unchained, five Conservative MPs revived the argument. “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world,” the book says. “We...
Oct 7, 2022 · Crediting the UK’s new prime minister and chancellor as authors alongside former ministers Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Chris Skidmore, the book bills itself as a diagnosis of where the UK has...