David Goodhart

Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration


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David Goodhart is Head of Policy Exchange’s Demography, Immigration, and Integration Unit, and Director of the Integration Hub website. He is a former Director of Demos, and former Editor of Prospect magazine, which he founded in 1995. David is a prominent figure in public debate in the UK, as a well-known broadcaster, author, commentator, and journalist. He has presented several BBC Radio 4 Analysis programmes. Before Prospect, he was a correspondent for the Financial Times, including a stint in Germany during the unification period. In 2013, he published The British Dream, a book about post-war multiculturalism, national identity, and immigration. It was runner up for the Orwell Book Prize in 2014. In 2017 he published The Road to Somewhere: The new tribes shaping British politics, about the value divides in western societies, which was a Sunday Times best-seller.

David Goodhart

Related Posts & Publications

One and a half cheers for the Integration APPG

One and a half cheers for the Integration APPG

by | Aug 28, 2017

There is a lot to welcome in this latest report on integration from the APPG on the issue but too much is buried under a mound of tendentious political rhetoric about reframing the supposedly “poisonous” contemporary debate about immigration. This is a shame. The...
Immigration & Integration After Brexit

Immigration & Integration After Brexit

by | Aug 5, 2016

View Report This Policy Exchange briefing paper looks at how to phase out freedom of movement and replace it with a work permit system for EU nationals. Recommendations—most of which could be implemented prior to Brexit negotiations—include: a maximum of six weeks to...
Integration Index

Integration Index

by | Apr 7, 2016

Read Report Integration has risen higher up the political agenda in recent months with policy makers more alert to the high levels of segregation in parts of the country as well as inequality both between and within ethnic groups. This study attempts to find out which...