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CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

The Centre for Policy Studies and CapX are delighted to be hosting a packed programme of fringe events at this year’s Conservative Party Conference, in a dedicated space in the heart of the main ICC building in Birmingham. Our great line-up of speakers includes multiple Cabinet ministers, as well as special guests such as Dr… View Article

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

On Friday, Kwasi Kwarteng is widely expected to cancel Rishi Sunak’s proposed rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25% New modelling by the US-based Tax Foundation and the Centre for Policy Studies shows that in the long term this will increase GDP by 1.2%, investment by 2% and wages by 1.1% compared to the… View Article

In memory of Tessa Keswick

The Centre for Policy Studies expresses its deepest sorrow at the loss of Tessa Keswick. Read more here

The Future of Conservatism

The Centre for Policy Studies is delighted to host a conference on The Future of Conservatism and welcome James Frayne, Lucy Frazer MP, Claire Coutinho MP, Fraser Nelson, Neil O’Brien MP and many more! Following the resignation of the now former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a summer punctuated by hustings and debates and the prospect of a new government… View Article

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

As the new Government prepares to unveil its package of energy reforms, analysis from the Centre for Policy Studies shows the extraordinary potential cost of some of the measures under consideration. A new briefing note from the think tank, ‘The Bleak Midwinter’, sets out the awful economic impacts of the energy price crisis and the… View Article

The New Majority

Working-class voters are abandoning the Conservatives as the cost of living crisis bites – and shoring up their support needs to be the party’s overwhelming priority That is the main message in ‘The New Majority’, a new report by the Centre for Policy Studies and policy research agency Public First, which examines the changes to… View Article

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The most influential think tank among Conservative MPs

The Centre for Policy Studies – the pre-eminent centre-right think tank

The CPS is making the case for free markets, free speech, free trade and a free economy.

Lots of exciting ideas are being are being generated at the CPS [...] many of which are finding their way into Government

Everyone knows that the Centre for Policy Studies matters, and not just for conservatives, but for politics as a whole

The CPS played a very important part in [forming] my principles and values

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

In memory of Tessa Keswick

The Future of Conservatism

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

The New Majority

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

In memory of Tessa Keswick

The Future of Conservatism

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

The New Majority

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Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

The New Majority

No Way to Help the High Street

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CPS welcomes Government’s plan for growth

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

In memory of Tessa Keswick

CPS welcomes Government action on childcare costs

CapX

Regressive, ineffective and unnecessary – an online sales tax is no way to help the high street

The fractal blob: how EDI has crept into every level of the public sector

The Tories are right to revive Right to Buy – it is a policy to be proud of

If the Government wants companies to choose Britain, we need a culture change

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The most influential think tank among Conservative MPs

The Centre for Policy Studies – the pre-eminent centre-right think tank

The CPS is making the case for free markets, free speech, free trade and a free economy.

Lots of exciting ideas are being are being generated at the CPS [...] many of which are finding their way into Government

Everyone knows that the Centre for Policy Studies matters, and not just for conservatives, but for politics as a whole

The CPS played a very important part in [forming] my principles and values

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

In memory of Tessa Keswick

The Future of Conservatism

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

The New Majority

CPS & CapX Fringe Agenda – Conservative Party Conference

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

In memory of Tessa Keswick

The Future of Conservatism

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

The New Majority

Who we are

Research

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

Economic Bulletin: The Bleak Midwinter

The New Majority

No Way to Help the High Street

News

CPS welcomes Government’s plan for growth

Cancelling corporation tax rise will boost GDP by 1.2% – but reforming capital allowances could do even more

In memory of Tessa Keswick

CPS welcomes Government action on childcare costs

CapX

Regressive, ineffective and unnecessary – an online sales tax is no way to help the high street

The fractal blob: how EDI has crept into every level of the public sector

The Tories are right to revive Right to Buy – it is a policy to be proud of

If the Government wants companies to choose Britain, we need a culture change

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