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Latest Government & Politics Publications
Electoral Omission
Dr Michael Pinto-DuschinskyElectoral Omission highlights how the administration of elections in the UK remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud and predicts that there will be up to 15.5 million errors on the UK’s electoral registers at the time of next year’s General Election. The report recommends the introduction of targets for the maximum number of omissions and errors in the electoral register and annual checks to measure accuracy, along with small council tax rebates to encourage people to complete and return their voter registration forms.
Northern Lights: Public policy and the geography of political attitudes in Britain today
Neil O'BrienIs there a north-south divide political divide? A major study into public attitudes – Northern Lights – examines the new political and social geography of England. The research finds that the way people vote is less and less determined by their social class, and more by how they think the government is performing and their attitudes to controversial issues like migration and crime.
Reforming Public Appointments
Lynne Middleton and Dr Michael Pinto-DuschinskyReforming Public Appointments shows that equality policies set up under the last government are failing to promote people from working class communities to public office. It calls for an extension of the entire equalities policy to increase representation of people from routine and manual occupational backgrounds, and for greater transparency about the membership of interviewing panels for public appointments.
Latest Government & Politics Blogs
Democracy and Brexit
Reflecting on the Foreign Secretary’s speech at Policy Exchange last week, Director of Research and Strategy Rupert Oldham-Reid summarises the speech.
What might we expect from the German federal election?
On Sunday, Germany will go to the polls to elect the nineteenth Bundestag. Rebecca Lowe — Convenor of Policy Exchange’s Research Group on Political Thought, and Judicial Power Project Fellow — reflects on the campaign and the possible outcomes.
An Irish perspective on the Brexit Talks so far
Former leading Irish Ambassador Ray Bassett — now Policy Exchange’s Senior Fellow for EU Affairs — examines the state of play in Brexit negotiations so far. Dr. Bassett notes that little progress has been made on key three issues that are holding up the negotiations – reciprocal rights of EU and UK citizens, the Brexit Divorce Bill and the Irish border. However, he suggests that there is less unanimity in the EU27 position than appears on surface and that the new Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, may dissent from the official EU position on the need to establish a customs border. Ultimately, as negotiations continue, the power of decision will shift from Brussels to Berlin, suggesting that pragmatism and self-interest may prevail, with a good trading relationship prioritised over the desire to punish the UK for leaving.
Latest Government & Politics News
Brexit: A Prize in Reach for the Left
Policy ExchangePolicy Exchange hosted Professor Richard Tuck, one of the world’s leading historians of ideas, to set out the case for Brexit as the best opportunity for the Left to bring about pure socialism. Labour MP Caroline Flint delivered the vote of thanks, in which she cautioned her colleagues that “We cannot spend the next 18 months voting down every one of the Tories’ EU Bills. If we do so, we will look like liars” in remarks covered by the Express, the Sun and Total Politics.
The Sun credits Policy Exchange’s agenda setting work on the ‘Just About Managing’ classes
Policy ExchangeThe Sun credited Policy Exchange’s agenda setting work on the ‘Just About Managing’ classes, saying: “Think tank Policy Exchange describe them as “people who just manage to get by each month but whose resilience to economic shocks is not high”.”
New Statesman discusses Policy Exchange report on ‘just about managing families’
Policy ExchangeGeorge Eaton refers to Policy Exchange’s 2015 report, ‘Overlooked But Decisive: Connecting with England’s Just About Managing Classes’
Latest Government & Politics Events
Conservative Conference 2015 | Party members in the 21st Century – who they are, what they think, and what they do, hosted by Policy Exchange and Queen Mary University of London
With Chloe Smith MP; Baroness Jenkin of Kennington; Matthew D’Ancona, political columnist and author; Professor Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London; James Frayne, Policy Exchange.
Conservative Conference 2015 | Metro economies: How can cities exploit devolution to boost growth?
With John McDermott, Financial Times; Kru Desai, KPMG; Mike Emmerich, Metro Dynamics; Steve Hughes, Policy Exchange.
Conservative Conference 2015 | Government 3.0: Do we need a new business model for government?
With Lord Maude, Minister of State for Trade and Investment; Philip Chalmers, ATOS; Rachel Neaman, GoON UK; Mark Thompson, Methods Group; further speakers to be confirmed.
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