Publications Archive
July 16, 2019
What do we want from the next Prime Minister on Space Policy?
June 28, 2019
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.
June 12, 2019
A series of policy ideas for new leadership. Part 1: Housing, Energy and Environment
June 6, 2019
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
May 21, 2019
This research paper explores the nature and extent of the serious and urgent problems affecting the provision of social care in the UK.
May 15, 2019
Adopting the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia would be a mistake.
April 29, 2019
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.
April 1, 2019
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.
March 31, 2019
The risks of the House of Commons taking control.
March 18, 2019
The UK Government is now correct in asserting the right, in extremis, to appeal to international law under the Vienna Convention.
March 11, 2019
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.
February 28, 2019
An investigation into T-levels and the wider vocational system
January 29, 2019
“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
January 28, 2019
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.
January 21, 2019
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.
January 19, 2019
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.
December 17, 2018
Disruptive behaviour in schools is damaging children’s learning and causing an exodus from the teaching profession, poll finds
December 7, 2018
What can places across the Midlands do to improve local rates of productivity and prosperity?
December 3, 2018
This paper explains how Parliament and Government jointly could mitigate the risk that the backstop becomes a permanent feature of the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
The ongoing pursuit of historical allegations against UK forces represents a failure on the part of the British state to protect those it asks to serve.
A significant increase in the number of homes purpose-built for older people is needed to support the country’s ageing population to live healthily and happily for longer.
November 28, 2018
A “Global Britain” engaged in a long-term international competition needs to play a much more efficient and finely tuned strategic game.
November 19, 2018
The Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland acted wrongly in referring to the Court of Justice of the EU the question of whether the UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50 and so remain in the EU.
November 15, 2018
Recent years have seen a sustained and significant coarsening of the tone in British politics. Why is this happening? What are the consequences? And what should be done about it?
November 1, 2018
It is the EU’s Brexit position which most threatens the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
September 20, 2018
Scotland and North East England offer the best opportunities for successful hydrogen production hubs, while investment in cost-effective hydrogen production technologies – such as electrolysis – would open up export opportunities and address both the Industrial and Clean Growth strategies, according to the new report from Policy Exchange’s award-winning energy team, with a Foreword from the first elected Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen.
July 30, 2018
Brexit and the ending of free movement, the persistent problem of illegal immigration and the need to avoid any repeat of the Windrush scandal, have combined to put some kind of national identity system right back on the political agenda. One option would be to roll out the ID management system now being developed for the 3.6m EU citizens to everyone. The border should also be a higher priority for future public investment, according to a new report by Policy Exchange’s Head of Demography, Immigration and Integration David Goodhart, The Border Audit: A post-Windrush review.