How to Save the NHS in 1000 Days
Download Publication Online Reader How to Save the NHS in 1000 Days: Adopting a Dutch-style social insurance model for healthcare sets out a clear and practical roadmap for implementing a new universal healthcare system in England, modelled on the world leading Dutch social insurance model. This builds on the recommendations Policy Exchange made in our 2025 report The NHS –...
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Curate’s Egg
Download Publication Online Reader Curate’s Egg is Policy Exchange’s analysis of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy. It proposes the creation of a “special representative on anti-Muslim hostility,” which will almost certainly hand an official megaphone to an activist with an expansive view of what anti-Muslim hostility is. It creates potential free speech risks, pledging to crack down on “divisive content”...
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Why Iran is not Iraq
Download Publication Online Reader In this essay, Sir John Jenkins KCMG LVO — Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq — dismantles the argument that we must ‘learn the lessons’ of the 2003 military activity in Iraq when considering the recent US strikes on Iran. You can read the essay published here in The...
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Putting Business Back in the Driving Seat
Download Publication Online Reader Though often arising from the best intentions, in recent years Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in businesses has moved beyond traditional conceptions of non-discrimination and meritocratic advancement to embrace a wide range of initiatives, regulatory requirements and principles. These can impose significant costs on businesses and their staff, reduce productivity, create division and are...
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Poundbury not Peterborough
Download Publication Online Reader The last generation of British new towns reshaped the fabric of British mid-20th century housing and urban development and, while contentious in many areas, was successful in its core aim of accommodating population overspill from urban areas and thereby averting a post-war housing crisis. But will the Government’s plans for a new generation of new towns...
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From Rates to Ruin
Download Publication Online Reader This paper warns of the looming crisis of local authority SEND spending in England. In just 6 years, local authority spending on SEND provision has increased 58.5% in real terms – equivalent to over £5 billion in additional spending. Half of all schools funding since 2015 has been spent on SEND. Now, with the Government promising...
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‘Intellectual Rearmament’ in the Third Nuclear Age
Download Publication Online Reader Britain’s nuclear deterrent and strategy are configured for a strategic environment that no longer exists. Nuclear weapons have returned to the forefront of international politics, driven by intensifying great-power competition, nuclear coercion and increasingly collaborative adversaries. Yet, Britain’s strategic assumptions are still grounded in the unipolarity of the post-Cold War period, during which time...
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Why the UK should not cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Download Publication Online Reader For the cession of the Chagos Islands to go ahead, the Government must persuade the US Administration to support its agreement with Mauritius and to amend the 1966 US-UK treaty concerning the availability for defence purposes of the British Indian Ocean Territory. It must also persuade Parliament to enact the legislation – the Diego Garcia Military...
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Public Sector Pension Reform
Download Publication Online Reader This Policy Exchange research note models the cost of transferring new public sector employees on to funded, defined-contribution pension schemes with a standardised employer contribution of 10%. This modelling finds that, after an initial period of modest short-term costs, there are significant annual savings associated with this reform. Estimated annual savings rise to £6.1 billion 20...
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Against cheap rhetoric
Download Publication Online Reader This paper dismantles the claim made repeatedly by senior parliamentarians and others from across the political divide that the United Kingdom cannot withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) because this would put it in the same ‘camp’ as Russia and Belarus – two authoritarian countries guilty of gross violations of human rights over many years. Policy...
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