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Recent Blogs
Nationalisation: Good Bye Lenin, and a Misplaced ‘Nostalgia Chic’ — Be Careful What You Wish for
In response to the Labour Party’s proposed agenda of nationalisation, Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economic and Social Policy — discusses the challenges Britain faced during the time when its leading utilities were all government opened and run.
The US Budget Fiscal 2018: The President Proposes and Congress Will Dispose
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — reflects on President Trump’s recent full budget message to Congress. Lightfoot contends that, while ‘some of the administration’s proposals are sensible’, the message is ‘ambitious’, and its projected figures are ‘optimistic and controversial’.
Theresa May’s Leadership and the Post-Brexit Conservative Opportunity: creating a popular people’s party
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — was special adviser to three Chancellors of the Exchequer during the ERM controversy. Here he responds to last week’s Conservative Party manifesto, noting that the ‘electoral earthquake’ of Brexit has offered Theresa May ‘the opportunity to reunite the Conservative Party and the wider centre-right spectrum’ on the issue of Europe, in a way which is ‘little short of astonishing’.
The cost of cutting immigration
David Goodhart — Head of Policy Exchange’s Demography, Immigration, and Integration unit — reflects on whether there is an economic cost attached to the Government’s aim of reducing immigration to ‘tens of thousands’. He argues that the connection between economic growth and high immigration is not at all clear and that the future fiscal contribution of immigrants depends on who comes
Warwick Lightfoot responds to the Labour Party Manifesto
Labour’s manifesto has an ambitious objective: to ‘rewrite the rules of a rigged system, so that our economy really works for the many, and not only the few’. It is expressly collectivist, claiming ‘Labour understands that the creation of wealth is a collective...
Lawfare and the Judicialisation of War in the Conservative Party Manifesto
Professor Richard Ekins, Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, comments on the way in which the Conservative manifesto ‘sets out an ambitious agenda in response to the problem of judicialisation of war’. He points out that this was first placed on the wider public agenda ‘by Policy Exchange in two landmark papers, Fog of Law and Clearing the Fog of Law’.
Policy Exchange’s John Blake comments on Labour’s education proposals, in the TES
In a new piece for TES, John Blake — Policy Exchange’s Head of Education and Social Reform — says Labour’s roadmap towards a National Education Service needs more landmarks than its slightly ambiguous manifesto provides
Why Jeremy Corbyn is not part of the Clement Attlee internationalist tradition within Labour
John Bew — Head of Policy Exchange’s Britain in the World project — reflects on Jeremy Corbyn’s recent Chatham House speech, and how the Labour leader is not part of the ‘noble tradition of liberal internationalism [that] has pumped blood to the heart of the Labour Party since its foundation and is an essential part of the Labour story’.
Lawfare against the Armed Forces must be on the next Government’s agenda
Policy Exchange placed lawfare against our Armed Forces and the “judicialisation of war” on the map with two seminal studies — The Fog of Law and Clearing the Fog of Law. Professor Richard Ekins, Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, outlines the next Government’s options on this vital topic, which is of growing concern to the British public as well as the professionals.
No longer overlooked but still decisive: has Theresa May conquered class politics for the Tories?
Policy Exchange Director Dean Godson explores how gender, race, and sexuality dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation — and how the Prime Minister is now scaling the most challenging of peaks, namely class.
