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Recent Blogs
Work and education, not benefits, are the keys to social mobility
In his latest blog for The Telegraph, Policy Exchange Director Neil O’Brien praises a speech recently made by Nick Boles MP. Neil agrees with his message and says the government should redirect resources from benifits to children towards helping parents to earn more.
We still don’t know what Labour’s alternative is
Policy Exchange Director Neil O’Brien writes a response in The New Statesman blog The Staggers to an article by Labour MP John Denham. Neil argues that Labour need to identify where their spending commitments are going to come from if voters are going to trust them on the economy.
Cutting onshore wind subsidies too fast is the wrong target
Policy Exchange’s Head of Envrionment and Energy unit Guy Newey argues that the government should start looking at offshore wind first if it wants to cut a subsidy to renewable energy.
What is Milibandism?
In the New Statesman Policy Exchange Director Neil O’Brien examines what policies Ed Miliband might implement if he were to be elected as Prime Minister.
Chris Yiu: We need new ways of solving the familiar problem of the revenue tax gap
Following the release of The Big Data Opportunity author and Head of Digital Chris Yiu outlines how the use of data could help the government increase tax revenues in a blog for Conservative Home.
Fewer police officers doesn’t necessarily mean a rise in crime
Head of Policy Exchange’s Crime and Justice unit Blair Gibbs writes in The Guardian that a fall in police numbers does not necessarily lead to an increase in crime. Findings from Cost of the Cops are used to support his case.
The public is more than ready to see benefits made fair
Policy Exchange Director Neil O’Brien calls for the re-establishment of the contributory principle in the welfare system. He praises the government for strengthening jobsearch requirements but says that more needs to be done to target those furthest away from the labour market and tailor support towards their specific needs.
Apps for citizens
Policy Exchange’s Digital Government team, Chris Yiu and Sarah Fink, outline the discussion from a recent Policy Exchange roundtable ‘Apps for Citizens’. The event explored what the government’s ‘digital-by-default’ proposals for public services, coupled with the desire of external developers to innovate in the space between citizens and the state, means for public policy?
Why we should change the child poverty target
Policy Exchange Director Neil O’Brien shows why we should change the Child Poverty Target – which currently only measures inequality rather than actual poverty – to one which measures a range of indicators including unemployment and education.
Windsor – the outsider
Blair Gibbs, Policy Exchange’s Head of Crime & Justice, writes setting out why he believes Tom Winsor is the right man to head up Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), arguing that under Winsor the inspectorate can evolve further towards becoming a public auditor of standards and an economic regulator.
