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Make council houses beautiful

August 15, 2025

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I’m a former Detective Chief Inspector. This is what’s going wrong at The Met

August 4, 2025

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We need to be honest about London’s crime wave

July 30, 2025

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The Met must fix London’s street crime crisis

July 30, 2025

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Is this the man who can defeat France’s Islamists?

July 24, 2025

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Streeting to hand working class areas greater share of NHS funds

June 25, 2025

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European Convention on Human Rights lets illegal migration flourish

June 5, 2025

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Trump’s ‘act of self-harm’ could accidentally save UK universities

May 30, 2025

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Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction – now the movement has gone deeper underground

April 25, 2025

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Instead of making a moral argument for the need to reform a broken a system, Labour has cast welfare changes as a narrow fiscal exercise, wrote Policy Exchange’s Jean-André Prager and
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Alternative approaches to the management of the ci

Alternative approaches to the management of the civil service can deliver far greater savings than the Government is proposing – around £5 billion p.a. including future pension savings, compared to the £2 billion currently proposed.

This is the thrust of Policy Exchange’s new paper: ‘Smaller, Better, Higher Paid?’

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✍️ Lara Brown – Head of Culture and Identity at Policy Exchange – writes for @the.independent:

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📣 NEW REPORT The Sentencing Council’s new gu

📣 NEW REPORT

The Sentencing Council’s new guideline is at odds with the principle of equal treatment before the law.

It is wrong that an Arm’s Length Body can make fundamental policy changes concerning the justice system without Parliament’s consent.

The Government must legislate – now.

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📊 The models of the impact of Brexit on UK expo $📊 The models of the impact of Brexit on UK exports used by the OBR are greatly exaggerated – and the real impact is only a small fraction of what has been assumed. This is the central argument of @policyexchange’s new paper, 'Less than Meets the Eye: The Real Impact of Brexit on UK Trade', which was endorsed by former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP @jeremyhuntmp 📰 The launch of this report was covered by The Sun, The Independent, The Daily Express, City AM, The i Paper, GB News, The Irish Times and POLITICO Read it on our website 🧑‍💻 (Link in our bio)$

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✍️ David Spencer, Head of Crime and Justice at Policy Exchange, writes for @spectator1828 👆

📣 New report ⛪️ The Case Against Reparatio

📣 New report

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📣 New report

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⚖️ Misjudging Parliament’s reversal of the Supreme Court’s judgment in R v Adams

Backed by 16 leading peers, this report shows that a new Government decision to change the law will result in Gerry Adams and hundreds of others being in line for a pay day from the taxpayer as “compensation” for their detention in the 1970s for suspected involvement in terrorism.

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This new Policy Exchange report calls for the UK Government to withdraw immediately from the proposed deal, arguing that four developments since the deal’s announcement expose its flimsy foundations, and undermine the Government’s claim that the Diego Garcia military base’s “long-term future is… more secure under this agreement than without it”.

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