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Unleashing the power of the Union – ideas for new leadership

Unleashing the power of the Union – ideas for new leadership

8 ideas for revitalising UK foreign policy for the post-Brexit age

How a lack of understanding of national power generation threatens our way of life

The balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region is changing. How should the UK respond?

What do we want from the next Prime Minister on Education?

Extinction Rebellion has mainstreamed the politics of a radical fringe.

This paper challenges some claims made about the constitutional obligations of Her Majesty the Queen, the current Prime Minister and the next Prime Minister.

How policy can incentivise beautiful housing schemes and unlock the building of new homes at the scale required by the housing shortage.

The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement is under severe threat from the Protocol.

What do we want from the next Prime Minister on Social Care?

What do we want from the next Prime Minister on the Backstop?

What do we want from the next Prime Minister on Space Policy?

The next Prime Minister has a responsibility to act urgently to protect UK troops, whether serving or retired, from ongoing exposure to legal risk and to unfair legal processes.

A series of policy ideas for new leadership. Part 1: Housing, Energy and Environment

Recent changes to university admissions are having a detrimental impact on schools and sixth form colleges – and on teachers and pupils in the process of applying for higher education

This research paper explores the nature and extent of the serious and urgent problems affecting the provision of social care in the UK.

Adopting the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia would be a mistake.

The impact on counter-terrorism policy and operations if the UK government adopts the definition of Islamophobia proposed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims.

The UK should develop an Indo-Pacific strategy based on shaping security in the region, with a forward presence centred on a flexible, scalable, sustainable force.

The risks of the House of Commons taking control.

The UK Government is now correct in asserting the right, in extremis, to appeal to international law under the Vienna Convention.

The UK’s legal position in relation to the backstop.

To address the shortage of homes in and around London, a new government Department for Growth should work with the Mayor of London and partner directly with developers to build 15 new millennial towns in the capital’s commuter belt.

An investigation into T-levels and the wider vocational system

“The UK continues to be too timid” in its negotiations with the EU over the Backstop and its relationship to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

The Irish Backstop would “turn the Good Friday Agreement on its head”

A collection of essays on the design, style and economics of the built environment.

It is a mistake to assume that the House of Commons could engineer a change to the law to postpone or cancel Brexit without persuading the Government to acquiesce and participate in securing the change. The risks to which an attempt to do so would give rise include the contravention of fundamental constitutional principles based on centuries of history.

Current proposals for Parliament to “take over the process” are based on fundamental misconceptions about the UK constitution, and that makes them both dangerous and wrong. This paper explains how.