Lara Brown
Senior Research Fellow, Culture and Identity
Lara joined Policy Exchange in September 2023. Previously, she worked as a Researcher in Westminster for a Conservative Member of Parliament. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge where she also served as President of the Cambridge Union.
Download Publication Online Reader A new report from Policy Exchange – “Full Steam Ahead: Delivering an Abundance of Train Drivers” sets out how a mass recruitment campaign, modelled on the successful HGV Driver Bootcamp programme, could solve the UK’s shortage of train drivers and fix Britain’s railways. The report exposes how the shortage of train drivers strengthens the power of the trade unions by using the threat of overtime bans to cause […]
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 Call for Evidence asking corporations, employees, and citizens to share […]
Download Publication Online Reader A new report from Policy Exchange details the growing fiscal and economic opportunity cost of the growing power grid congestion holding back the UK’s world-class wind fleet In the absence of sufficient transmission capacity, the UK is losing one billion pounds a year because of system constraints. By the time planned solutions are implemented next decade, the cost of curtailment will have increased to an annual […]
With Dr Zareer Masani’s death last week, the country has lost a fine historian and academic. Born in Bombay in 1948, Dr Masani moved to Britain in the early 1970s and lived there for the rest of his life. He spent two decades as a current affairs producer for the BBC before moving on to work as a historian. Amongst other things, he served as a member of Policy Exchange’s […]