Kallum Pickering welcomes Douglas McNeill to discuss the current state of the UK economy, the factors that will shape its long run economic performance - including demographics and AI, and why the post-war 20th century period of rapid productivity growth may not be the right benchmark for shaping future growth hopes.
Douglas McNeill was Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from 2022 until 2024 as well as Sunak’s Special Advisor during his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022. From 2016 to 2020, Douglas was Special Economic Advisor to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
