Mission Critical
‘Mission Critical’ states that a ruthless prioritisation of policy will be required from the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to provide clarity and confidence in the new Government’s reform agenda for the NHS and care services over the ‘first hundred days’. Examining the sixty pledges made by the Labour Party across health and care over the...
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The UK’s Broken Housing Market
As the new Labour Government takes up office, Policy Exchange’s new report, ‘The UK’s Broken Housing Market: Causes, Consequences, and Cures’, sets out the need for urgent reform to the housing market. The report authors argue that: The highest priority for the new Government must be housing and planning. The UK is experiencing a crisis of housing affordability, both in...
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Getting a Grip on the System
A new report by Policy Exchange published today, ‘Getting a Grip on the System: Restoring Ministerial Authority over the Machine’, exposes how power has slipped away from Ministers in recent decades – and why this needs to be reversed if difficult reforms are to be undertaken. The report – backed by former Conservative Senior Cabinet Minister Rt Hon Michael Gove and...
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Politicising Business
Read Publication Polling Document 1 Polling Document 2 Policy Exchange’s Politicising Business project will document and explore the role and influence of social and ideological considerations on contemporary business, particularly the extent to which business has been captured by special interest groups. Policy Exchange will methodically document how this is occurring. As part of this project we are launching a...
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One size fits all
Download Publication Online Reader The first detailed study of new plans for “Fair Pay Agreements”- published by Policy Exchange today – finds that the policy could cost taxpayers £4.2bn per year in social care alone, £21bn over a parliament, while failing to improve many beneficiaries’ living standards. The plans, part of Labour’s New Deal for Working People, have been little...
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Disconnect
Download Publication Online Reader A range of factors have been suggested as catalysing the decline in the mental health of children and young people in recent years. Perhaps the most significant hypothesis is the link between smartphone ownership, social media use and a greater prevalence of mental and behavioural disorders amongst children and young people. A major Policy Exchange study...
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Tall Buildings
Download Publication Online Reader A new report for Policy Exchangem ‘Tall Buildings: A Policy Framework for Responsible High-Rise and Better Density’, argues that the unplanned proliferation of tall buildings has not delivered the housing Britain needs – and calls for a more responsible approach to urban density. It conclusively shows that building more tall buildings is not the...
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A definition of Islamophobia?
Download Publication Online Reader Policy Exchange today shines a light on how the term ‘Islamophobia’ is being regularly misused to silence open debate about contemporary issues, with a series of egregious examples since the 7/10 attacks by Hamas. Those examples are catalogued in this report, including how asking an MP to agree that terrorists should attack fewer people is ‘Islamophobic’, as...
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Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Download Publication Online Reader A new report from Policy Exchange published today, ‘Human Rights and the Rule of Law’, challenges the common assumption that the idea of the rule of law supports European human rights law. The report, written by Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) – Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and...
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