Build, baby, build
Download Publication Online Reader This report by Policy Exchange shows the Government how to deliver on its Manifesto commitment to build more prisons. The report explicitly rejects the suggestion that we are “addicted to punishment” – making the case that protecting the law-abiding majority means sending more criminals to prison. Compared to the 9.5 million criminal offences committed every year...
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Principles for Restitution
Download Publication Online Reader A new Policy Exchange report, Principles for Restitution, published today, documents the increasing pressure on UK museum to return artefacts to their country of origin and shows that in too many cases such decisions are being taken on an inconsistent or partial basis. The report also highlights how some museums are using ‘long term loans’ as a form...
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Two-Tier Justice
Download Publication Online Reader This new report from Policy Exchange, “Two-Tier Justice: Political accountability, the Sentencing Council and the limits of judicial independence”, examines the background, legal and policy framework that have led to the Sentencing Council’s two-tier sentencing guideline coming into force today – despite the outspoken opposition of the Lord Chancellor and Shadow Lord Chancellor. The report argues both...
Read MoreThe Ottawa Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions: Can we still afford them?
Download Publication Online Reader A new paper from Policy Exchange calls for the Government to withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines – arguing that both now serve as an impediment to greater allied security against Russian aggression. After a number of our NATO allies in eastern and north-eastern Europe have recently signalled...
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Less than Meets the Eye
Download Publication Online Reader This new report by Policy Exchange sets out how the models of the impact of Brexit on UK exports used by the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) are greatly exaggerated – and that the real impact is only a small fraction of what has been assumed. Unlike most previous models, the report analyses trade sector by...
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Robustly Resilient
Download Publication Online Reader A new paper from Policy Exchange urges the Government to put supply chain resilience at the centre of economic, defence, and foreign policy planning. The UK, as an island nation dependent on free and open maritime trade, has been rocked by repeated disruptions to globalised world systems since the late 2010s – from Brexit, to Sino-American...
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Strengthening the Political Constitution
Download Publication Online Reader It is often remarked that the British constitution is not a single codified text. It contains both written and unwritten elements, but so do all constitutional systems. Even countries with detailed codified constitutions cannot make those constitutions workable without taking into account unwritten elements: precedent, convention, reasoning, norms, and historical practice. What makes the British constitution...
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For Whose Benefit?
Download Publication Online Reader A major new report – backed by former Labour Work and Pensions Secretary Lord Blunkett – calls for a radical overhaul to the health and disability benefits system, arguing that Britain’s health and disability benefit system for people of working age isn’t working: fiscally, technically or morally. Forecasts from the Office of Budget Responsibility suggests that if...
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The Costs of Crime – And How to Reduce Them
Download Publication Online Reader This report from Policy Exchange is the latest in Policy Exchange’s landmark Policy Programme for Prosperity. Providing a detailed breakdown of the costs of crime and a series of proposals of how to reduce them – the report has calculated that the tangible costs of crime to the United Kingdom are about £170bn or around 6.5% of...
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The Rotherham Grooming Scandal and the Creators of the Islamophobia Definition
Download Publication Online Reader The British Government is being urged to adopt a highly-contested definition of Islamophobia developed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims. This short research note deals specifically with links between the APPG and the grooming scandal in Rotherham. One key individual on the APPG’s staff, Muhbeen Hussain, closely involved in the report which developed the...
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