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Paying for the Party: Myths and realities in British political finance
Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky and Roger GoughRead Publication Foreword by David Butler The case for urgent reform of Britain’s political finance laws, and for increased state funding of political parties, is generally based on the premise that the expenditures of British political parties have rocketed. The...
Back From Life Support: Remaking Representative and Responsible Government in Britain
Policy ExchangeCumulative social and political changes have undermined the concept of active citizenship on which the concepts of representative and responsible government have been based. Back From Life Support, written by Frank Field MP, suggests ways of bringing those key concepts back.
No More Tiers: Reforming Shire Government
Glyn GaskarthThis report outlines a better model of local government: an innovative model of ‘federal’ county government, which streamlines bureaucracy and presents a unified public face, while power originates at a very local level and is delegated up where necessary.
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Why Jeremy Corbyn is not part of the Clement Attlee internationalist tradition within Labour
John Bew — Head of Policy Exchange’s Britain in the World project — reflects on Jeremy Corbyn’s recent Chatham House speech, and how the Labour leader is not part of the ‘noble tradition of liberal internationalism [that] has pumped blood to the heart of the Labour Party since its foundation and is an essential part of the Labour story’.
No longer overlooked but still decisive: has Theresa May conquered class politics for the Tories?
Policy Exchange Director Dean Godson explores how gender, race, and sexuality dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation — and how the Prime Minister is now scaling the most challenging of peaks, namely class.
France: The First Round
As part of our ongoing series of French election comment, Rebecca Lowe Coulson — Policy Exchange’s State and Society Research Fellow — comments on the result of the preliminary round of the contest. She concludes that people ‘celebrating prematurely should take pause for thought. Those who fear Le Pen should not feel relief — and neither should those who still believe in the EU. This is not over yet’.
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