
Rebecca Lowe
Fellow, State & Society and Judicial Power Project; Convenor of Research Group on Political Thought 2016–17
rebecca.lowe@policyexchange.org.uk
Rebecca was the Fellow, State & Society and Judicial Power Project; Convenor of Research Group on Political Thought; and Editor of the weekly Policy Exchange Agenda. She is part of ConservativeHome’s editorial team, where she writes a fortnightly column, and she has written for various other mostly online publications, including Prospect Magazine, The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek Europe. She studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Birkbeck, University of London, and has worked for various political research organisations, and as a parliamentary researcher. In the 2015 general election, she was a parliamentary candidate for City of Durham, where she gained the sixth biggest increase in the Conservative vote, nationally. Her research interests lie in the intersection between policy, practical politics, and political theory.

Related Posts & Publications


Clarifying Income Distribution: An Issue of Equality or Need?
by Rebecca Lowe | Mar 6, 2017
Read Publication New analysis from Policy Exchange shows that claims that income inequality has never been greater are not only societally divisive, they are also largely untrue. Income equality does not necessarily equate to high overall living standards: many people...
Brexit Committee questions Ekins and Laws on legal and constitutional aspects
by Rebecca Lowe | Oct 16, 2017
Watch Session Everyone has questions about Brexit. But perhaps the most significant are those being asked by the House of Commons’ Exiting the EU Committee, which, on Wednesday, held its first hearing of this parliament. The committee’s official purpose is to ‘examine...
What might we expect from the German federal election?
by Rebecca Lowe | Sep 17, 2017
Traffic light, pizza connection, tiger-duck, Jamaica coalition. Anyone unexcited about next Sunday’s German federal election should find intrigue in the memorable colour-combination terms for the country’s potential governing alliances. Those combinations represent...
The real questions behind Vice Chancellors’ pay
by Rebecca Lowe | Jul 12, 2017
This morning, Lord Adonis announced on Twitter that he would be entering the ongoing Vice Chancellors’ (VC) pay debate by making a speech on the topic, tomorrow, in the House of Lords. Over the past few years, annual reports — by both the Times Higher Education...Support Us
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