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Recent Blogs
Public Infrastructure Spending: A Silver Bullet?
Contending that ‘infrastructure is at the top of President Trump’s domestic economic agenda’, Warwick Lightfood — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — reflects on the past twenty-five years of debate about the amount and quality of infrastructure in the US.
In and Out: White Papers Past and Present
Rebecca Lowe Coulson — Policy Exchange’s State and Society Research Fellow — compares last week’s Brexit white paper with the white paper presented to parliament in 1971, which outlined the then government’s plans and argument for Britain’s accession to the European Communities.
The Realities of a US-UK Free Trade Agreement
In a piece first published by ConservativeHome, Geoff Raby, Policy Exchange’s Head of Trade Policy, contends that while ‘undoubtedly the UK and USA will be able to negotiate a post-Brexit high-quality FTA’, many ‘major unknowns’ remain as yet unresolved.
Putting resource productivity at the heart of the UK’s industrial strategy
Richard Howard — Policy Exchange’s Head of Energy and Environment — responds to the Government’s eagerly-awaited green paper on developing a new Industrial Strategy. He also summarises the key points from Policy Exchange’s roundtable discussion featuring leading manufacturers.
What should a US-UK trade deal be based on?
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — and Jonathan Dupont — Economic and Social Policy Research Fellow — explore five key points that a free trade agreement between the UK and US should be based on, including a potential carbon tax.
Supreme Court has ‘fumbled the law’
This is a very disappointing decision which is not justified by long-standing legal principle
Policy Exchange welcomes Government’s Industrial Strategy
The Government has launched the first details of its long-awaited Modern Industrial Strategy with the publication of a Green Paper. It shares much of Policy Exchange’s analysis
Trumpian Economics
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — assesses the new President’s economic approach, contending that Trump ‘does not just embody a rupture with policy orthodoxy, he also represents a rupture with standard conservative economic analysis’
Britain Flies into the Danger Zone: But the Risks of Getting Involved in Asia Are Worth It
Ahead of Policy Exchange’s ‘End of the Asian Century?’ event on 19 January, Michael Auslin explains why sending HMS Queen Elizabeth into Pacific waters on its maiden voyage in 2021 will be symbolic of the UK’s continuing global role
The Folly of Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon
If ever there was a textbook example of how to go about Government lobbying and project development, then it is the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. The developer, Tidal Lagoon Power, has done a frankly incredible job of promoting the project to policymakers and...
