Opinion | Rishi Sunak’s route to economic growth

Rishi Sunak will have to convince people of hard truths: The era of stimulus is over. The route to economic growth lies in smarter regulation, says Simon Tisdall. Sunak must be as bold on microeconomic strategy as he is on macro, he says. The average European Union country has 500 dwellings for every 1,000 inhabitants. Britain is not just a NIMBY country — as in, Not in My Back Yard. As the Economist lamented recently, it’s a BANANA country: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. Britain has fewer than 450. France and Italy have almost 600. But the average EU country has nearly 600. France, Italy and. Italy have more than 600. It does not have . . .