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Recent Blogs
How do Free Trade Agreements Affect the Domestic Economy? Evidence from the United States
Policy Exchange Economic and Social Policy Research Fellow, Damian Hind, looks to a recent American study to cast light on the opportunities and challenges of Free Trade Agreements
Miller: Expert Reactions
Editor’s Note: Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project invited a number of leading academics and practitioners to offer very short comments on the High Court’s decision on the process for triggering Article 50 in R(Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the...
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: Behind the Headlines
Rebecca Lowe Coulson, Policy Exchange’s State and Society Research Fellow, examines the results and context of last week’s statistical release, focusing on the effects of the introduction of the National Living Wage
GDP, Brexit, and an Economy in no need of additional stimulus
Warwick Lightfoot, Policy Exchange’s Head of Research and Economic and Social Policy, contends that ‘there should now be a debate in the UK about how the domestic monetary stimulus provided this summer is reversed before it begins to have an effect on economic activity’
Brexit and the Sovereignty of Parliament
Warwick Lightfoot, Policy Exchange’s Director of Research and Head of Economics and Social Policy, uses AV Dicey’s thoughts on referenda to contend that arguments suggesting that parliamentary sovereignty is being ‘overridden’ regarding Brexit are ‘premature’
A UK-EU Free Trade Agreement Will Be the Most Unusual in History
Policy Exchange’s Head of Trade Policy contends that ‘making an early and confident start on a broad-based FTA agenda would contribute to lifting business and international confidence in a post-Brexit UK’.
Rights after Brexit: Submission to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights
This submission has been made by Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project to the Joint Committee on Human Rights at the UK Parliament. Its writers contend that anxiety over the protection of human rights in the wake of the UK’s intention to withdraw from the EU is misplaced
Sterling: A View
Gerard Lyons, Policy Exchange’s Chief Economic Adviser, considers ‘measures the authorities could take to guard against a sterling crisis’, contending that ‘the most important of these’ is to ‘provide policy clarity on what lies ahead’
Watch: What Would Clem Do?
Video footage of this well-received, and exceptionally well-attended panel discussion, which took place on Tuesday 11 October. Addressing Labour’s past and future, the event centred around ‘Citizen Clem’ — the new biography of Attlee, written by John Bew, head of Policy Exchange’s Britain in the World project.
An Overdue Political Debate: Monetary Policy and the Role of Central Banks
Warwick Lightfoot, Policy Exchange’s Head of Economics and Social Policy, reflects on nascent debate about the monetary policy that central banks have pursued since the Great Recession
