Lord Bilimoria recently shared his thoughts about the aftermath of the 2015 General Election and a reluctance to celebrate British achievements in an article published in the Telegraph. In the feature he hailed the stable business conditions created by the election result and argued for the new wholly Conservative government to take decisive action to tackle the decline in the UK’s productivity, while continuing to reduce the nation’s deficit.
In an article in the Telegraph, Lord Bilimoria raised concerns about the incoherent and unambitious vision promoted by Ed Miliband and the Labour party in the run up to the 2015 General Election. In the piece he hit out at Ed Miliband’s anti-business message and asked the Labour party to put forth a genuine, and economically credible, alternative to Britain’s future.
Lord Bilimoria recently spoke to the New Statesman about the Conservative party’s immigration policies and the business credibility of the Labour party in the run up to the 2015 General Election.
In the article, he put forward the case for implementing a coherent immigration policy that encouraged bright students to remain in the UK and explained the reasons why he is optimistic about Britain’s future.
Lord Bilimoria today responded to the Government’s last Budget Statement of this Parliament during a debate in the House of Lords. In his speech, he acknowledged the importance of the Government’s austerity agenda to the UK’s long-term prosperity, but stressed that more investment is needed in areas like higher education and research and development, to improve the nation’s productivity, while noting the severity of the Government’s austerity programme on the UK’s growth rate during this Parliament.
Lord Bilimoria praised the recent unveiling of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on Parliament Square. As a member of the Mahatma Gandhi Statue Special Advisory Panel, and the Founding Chairman of the UK-India Business Council, Lord Bilimoria explains the importance of recognising the man who rose above his diminutive stature to become one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century in an article for Total Politics.
This Tuesday, Lord Bilimoria responded to the Select Committee on Soft Power and the UK’s Influence report Persuasion and Power in the Modern World. Speaking in the House of Lords, he praised the report and discussed the significant soft power that India, his country of birth, and the UK, his adoptive country, wield on the world stage.
Lord Bilimoria went on to detail the threats to the UK’s soft and hard power, which include the repeated budget cuts inflicted on Britain’s cultural and defence institutions, and noted the areas in which the UK continues to excel.