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Andrew Lilico

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Andrew Lilico is an economist, the managing director of Europe Economics, an economics consultancy. One of Europe's top experts on the economic impact of financial regulation, he led the teams doing the European Parliament's assessment of the impact of the Financial Services Action Plan, the European Commission's assessment of the costs of complying with financial regulation, and the FSA's assessment of the benefits of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. He is a member of the IEA/Sunday Times Shadow Monetary Policy Committee and a regular commentator on economic issues on BBC television and radio, and on Sky, Bloomberg and CNBC Europe

November 2017

  • US president Donald Trump's twitter account in which he tried to tweet the British Prime Minister Theresa May. 30 November 2017.

    Politics Weekly UK
    Trump's tweets and the Irish border – Politics Weekly podcast

    Anushka Asthana is joined by Andrew Lilico, Polly Toynbee, Brian Klaas and Brendan Cox to discuss outrage at President Trump’s sharing of anti-Muslim videos. Plus RTE’s Tony Connelly on the Irish border and Brexit
    Podcast40:58

February 2017

  • Trump

    Politics Weekly UK
    Should economists share the blame for populism? – Politics Weekly podcast

    Heather Stewart is joined by Andrew Lilico, Ann Pettifor, Jonathan Portes, Rachel Reeves and Vince Cable for an extended discussion at a Guardian Live event in London
    Podcast75:18

September 2013

  • William Hague

    Guardian Comment Network
    double quotation markWhy William Hague should resign over the Syria vote

    Andrew Lilico for ConservativeHome, part of the Guardian Comment Network
    Andrew Lilico for ConservativeHome: The sponsoring minister has suffered a no-confidence vote after asking for people to be killed – this is a resignation matter

January 2013

  • David Cameron

    Guardian Comment Network
    double quotation markWhat we should renegotiate in order to stay in the EU

    Andrew Lilico for ConservativeHome, part of the Guardian Comment Network
    Andrew Lilico for ConservativeHome: Many people's idea of 'renegotiation' involves us leaving the EU, but we need to be in it to be a counterweight to a federal Europe

September 2010

  • Money

    double quotation markPay is a personal matter

    Andrew Lilico
    Andrew Lilico: Questioning whether certain people 'deserve' their salaries is the wrong way to think about the issue

June 2010

  • double quotation markAn exercise in managing anger, not cuts

    Andrew Lilico
    Andrew Lilico: Lord Lawson is right to call Osborne's deficit consultation a PR ploy. But it is a ploy that might stop Britain turning Greek

March 2009

  • double quotation markWe should have spared capitalism, not the capitalists

    Andrew Lilico

    Andrew Lilico: It would have been better to employ the market's punishments – losing your money if your investment goes bad

December 2008

  • double quotation markMeet the Austrian school

    Andrew Lilico

    Andrew Lilico: What if we needed a recession to fix the excesses of the economy?

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