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Warwick Lightfoot discusses Brexit report on BBC news
Policy Exchange’s Director of Economics and Social Policy Warwick Lightfoot appeared on BBC News to discuss the leaked government analysis of the impact of Brexit over the next 15 years.
Event on judicial independence covered in The Times
Policy Exchange’s panel discussion on the limits of judicial independence has been covered in The Times, with reporting of the event concentrating on judges having been given too much power to decide issues such as assisted dying.
Policy Exchange report cited in HuffPost blog on atrocities
A year on from its publication and as Holocaust Memorial Day approaches, Policy Exchange’s report The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Price of Inaction in the Face of Mass Atrocities has featured in a HuffPost blog considering whether, and how, the UK should improve its record of interventions overseas.
Warwick Lightfoot gives evidence on trade
Policy Exchange’s Director of Economics Warwick Lightfoot gave evidence to the House of Commons International Trade Committee on US-UK trade after Brexit. Warwick argued that consumers should be at the heart of trade policy, and that freer trade means more choice and lower prices for them.
Graham Gudgin gives evidence to committee on Irish border
Policy Exchange’s Chief Economic Adviser Dr Graham Gudgin gave evidence to the House of Lords EU Select Committee on UK-Irish relations after Brexit. Dr Gudgin argued that electronic solutions should be prioritised for the border and argued that securing a free trade agreement with the EU must be a priority.
Modern farming policy will reward enhancing the environment, rather than subsidising inactivity
Policy Exchange’s Warwick Lightfoot argues in City AM that farming subsidies should be redirected to farmers who enhance the environment and invest in research and development.
North Korea – Is there a military option?
Leading South Korean General I-B Chun – former head of Korea’s Special Warfare Command – considered whether there is a military solution to the North Korean threat in an event at Policy Exchange. Chun warned that the North’s nuclear capability is not only directed at the United States; that we should all be worried about their cyber capability, indoctrination of children, that China would prefer a nuclear North Korea to a US-influenced state on its border. But he added: “I truly believe that my system of democracy, freedom, respect for human rights is far more powerful than any North Korean nuclear weapon.”
Future farming policy to reward enhancing the environment – as called for by Policy Exchange
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced that a post-Brexit agricultural policy will reward farmers for public goods rather than acreage – as recommended in Policy Exchange’s Farming Tomorrow. The paper says that flood prevention, tree planting and biodiversity should all be subsidised rather than food production.
Richard Norrie gives evidence to Women and Equalities Committee
Policy Exchange Demography, Immigration and Integration Research Fellow Richard Norrie appeared in front of Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee to provide advice on the quality and usefulness of the data making up the Race Disparity Audit.
Rachel Reeves “Loneliness” event features in Daily Mirror column
Daily Mirror columnist Ros Wynne-Jones, who chaired the Throwing a New Light on Loneliness event held at Policy Exchange, in which Rachel Reeves MP set out the findings of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, has written on the same topic in her column for the newspaper.
