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🔈A message from our parliamentary chair @PeterTFortune and founder @mattdaytech on this year’s conference and technology 🚀🇬🇧
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Read the comments by @mattdaytech in this morning’s @POLITICOEurope on an ambitious Conservative agenda for tech policy as a route to the growth Britain desperately needs🚀🇬🇧
Technology should enable a smaller, smarter and more responsible state
Conservatives should embrace technology as an opportunity to deliver better government more efficiently, with fewer processes and less bureaucracy. AI and automation should allow government to become smaller, smarter and faster, rather than simply digitising the bureaucracy we already have.
But a more technologically capable state must also be a responsible one: people should have clear rights over how government uses their data, with transparency and accountability when automated systems make decisions that affect their lives.
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Allies are essential. Dependency is optional.
Conservatives believe in the nation state. Britain should trade, collaborate and innovate with the world, particularly our allies, while retaining control over the technologies and infrastructure fundamental to our security, prosperity and democratic independence.
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Protect people from harm without restricting everyone’s freedom
Technology policy should be grounded in common sense: protect people from genuine harm without trying to eliminate every conceivable risk. Rules should be targeted, evidence-based and proportionate, with government focused on punishing wrongdoing rather than restricting millions of legitimate users.
New technology will never be entirely risk-free, and nor is anything else in life. Freedom should not be sacrificed in pursuit of perfect safety.
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Prosperity comes from enterprise, not government
Prosperity is created by people building businesses, investing, taking risks and creating things others value.
Across government, policy should be tested against a simple question: will this make it easier or harder to build and invest here? Britain should be unambiguously open for business.
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Innovation is the default, regulation is the exception
Britain has accumulated too much technology regulation, often layering new rules on top of old ones rather than asking whether existing intervention is still necessary.
Policymakers should consider the cumulative weight of regulation, not simply whether each individual rule appears reasonable in isolation: a succession of individually defensible interventions can collectively create a significant barrier to investment, innovation and growth.
Where new rules are proposed, the burden of proof should sit with the state: intervention should respond to clear evidence of serious harm, not simply the fact that a technology is new, disruptive or imperfect.
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This is incredibly sinister from the Green Party.
The Online Safety Act has already had a limiting function on free speech - and that's without the 'legal but harmful' elements that Nadine Dorries was keen to include.
The Greens should be clear that this is the state deciding what should be 'acceptable' speech.
Green Party members have proposed a major expansion of statutory press regulation, extending oversight into journalists’ ethical decisions and newsroom practices.
The motion, first revealed by @hoffman_noa, had 108 supporters when seen by The Times last night and could become party policy if approved at its autumn conference.
It includes a proposed “conscience clause” which would allow journalists to refuse assignments if a regulator deems them unethical. The regulator would set the ethical standard and determine whether an assignment was unethical, therefore deciding if the journalist could refuse it.
Large online platforms would be placed under a statutory duty to “actively promote and protect plurality and diversity of voices”.
The motion also called for around £1 billion of public money to be spent each year on an “Independent Media Commons” made up of non-profit and “public-interest” outlets.
The money would be distributed through national and regional media councils with the public having a say on where the money went.
thetimes.com/article/43a6fbd…
In our latest commentary blog, @LewisOrmston welcomes the Government’s decision to reform procurement, but warns that further steps are needed to fully back UK SMEs.
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