Of course the government should be promoting the UK, but in doing so it should make a point of not adopting the style of Trump's "boosterism", a word as ugly as the rhetoric to which it refers.

Although boosterism excites Trump and his supporters, I doubt that it drives much investment into the USA; most businesses base these decisions on incentives and opportunities, not hyperbole. As far as exports are concerned, other countries will take the boosterism into account as part of a larger picture of US intentions regarding international trade, but I would guess that most potential purchasers of US goods and services will at best ignore the boosterism . In some markets and for some kinds of exports, such as those of the entertainment industry, association with "America First" could actually prove to be a handicap in the years to come.

Simon Case's praise for Trump's "impressive political theatre" in his show of signing executive orders both surprises and saddens me, coming as it does from the sometime head of the UK's civil service and a holder of a history doctorate. Does he not recognise that this political theatre was promoting one of Trump's ugliest and most dangerous ambitions, to rule by decree? Please let us not ape this authoritarian ugliness in the UK!

UK should learn from Donald Trump’s ‘boosterism’, Rachel Reeves says | Labour | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/25/uk-rachel-reeves-chancellor-economy-donald-trump

#UKPolitics #USPolitics #InternationalTrade #Boosterism #DonaldTrump #RachelReeves #SimonCase

Is there any truth in the rumour that Simon Case is to join the Telegraph full-time after what has been seen as a successful 3-month internship as the paper's Cabinet Office Correspondent?

https://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd43864z5eo
#politics #ukpolitics #simoncase

'#RishiSunak was warned by senior civil servants a week before he called the election that he was at risk of breaching his #LegalResponsibilities if he failed to take action over the #PrisonsOvercrowdingCrisis, a leaked document reveals.'

'Senior civil servants felt that the prisons overcrowding crisis was so severe over the following weeks that the #CabinetSecretary, #SimonCase, chaired emergency #Cobra meetings himself on how to respond.'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/16/revealed-sunak-was-warned-he-risked-breaching-legal-responsibilities-over-prisons-crisis-leaked-papers-show

‘#EatOutToHelpOut’ launched without telling official in charge, #CovidInquiry hears -

#SimonCase, who was responsible for #Covid19 policy at time, calls #BorisJohnson’s Downing Street the ‘#WorstGoverningEverSeen’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/23/boris-johnson-government-chaos-smashed-good-people-to-pieces-case-tells-covid-inquiry
#EatOutToHelpOutTheVirus
#LetTheBodiesPileHigh

🤖 Simon Case ( @Chromaticbrands
): AI will destroy jobs, but there's a silver lining that could save your career
by Tom May @tom_may
at @creativeboom

#AI #SimonCase #Chromatics

https://www.creativeboom.com/features/simon-case-on-how-ai-will-destroy-jobs-and-the-silver-lining-that-could-save-your-career/

Top officials called #Johnson’s #No10 ‘mad’ and ‘poisonous’, #CovidInquiry hears

#CabinetOffice’s #SimonCase told #CabinetSecretary #MarkSedwill: ‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/07/top-officials-call-boris-johnson-no-10-mad-and-poisonous-covid-inquiry-hears
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIncompetence #Covid19

Let's hope he gets better soon...

"Case was also due to give evidence to the U.K.’s COVID-19 inquiry about the government’s handling of the pandemic in the coming weeks."

https://www.politico.eu/article/simon-case-head-uk-civil-service-out-medical-leave/

#simoncase #uk #ukpol

The #COVIDinquiry was shown Whatsapp chats from the early days of the pandemic in which cabinet secretary #SimonCase said government decision-making made it look like a ‘terrible, tragic joke’.

#COVID19 #Government
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/10/18/we-look-like-a-terrible-tragic-joke-covid-whatsapps-show-government-chaos/

More questions for civil service boss who said #CarrieJohnson was real #PM

#CovidInquiry expected to quiz #SimonCase over ‘treasure trove’ of official correspondence
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/15/more-questions-for-civil-service-boss-who-said-carrie-johnson-was-real-pm #ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19