CPS NEWS UPDATE: 24th June 2011
NEW PUBLICATION Breaking the Habit: Why the state should stop dealing drugs and start doing rehab by Kathy Gyngell
New report: Breaking the Habit
In this Centre for Policy Studies report, leading drugs analyst Kathy Gyngell shows
Ed Balls economic policy speech: A response from Ryan Bourne
“Today’s speech by Ed Balls shows that the Labour Party still does not have a credible plan to alleviate the country’s structural deficit.
News Bulletin, 10th June 2011
NEW PUBLICATION“The decline in Britain’s competitiveness – recently flagged up by the Centre for Policy Studies – long predates the crash, but if it is to be reversed, there needs to be a game-changing package of supply side measures to liberate the economy.” Daily Telegraph leader.
Taxes hinder recovery
Centre for Policy Studies Acting Director Tim Knox and board member Niall Ferguson were amongst the signatories to a letter to the Daily Telegraph today criticising the 6th June letter signed by 50 academics.
Where will growth come from?
On the 17 May the CPS held an extremely successful panel event on the important question of ‘Where will growth come from’.
New report: Give us our fair shares
In this brief paper, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, the authors propose distributing the shares that the Government bought in RBS and Lloyds to all taxpayers.
New report: The evaporating case for electoral reform
In this report, Fabian Richter undertakes the first ever analysis of how many parliamentary seats can really be considered as “safe”.
New report: Boost bank competition
Competition in the banking sector has been too weak for too long – and must be strengthened, writes Andrea Leadsom in Boost Bank Competition, published on Thursday 31 March by the Centre for Policy Studies.
BUDGET RESPONSE
The following proposals which have recently been advocated by the Centre for Policy Studies were incorporated in today’s budget
LECTURE: Iain Duncan Smith MP on Wefare reform: the wider context
Iain Duncan Smith MP delivered the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture on Welfare reform: the wider context. The text of the speech can be read here
NEW REPORT: 10 Points for Growth
Ahead of the 2011 budget, Charlie Elphicke, MP for Dover and Deal, sets out 10 policies which can stimulate the economy in 10 Points for Growth.
NEW REPORT: Five Fiscal Fallacies
Today’s debate over fiscal retrenchment is obscured by five fiscal fallacies, writes noted City economist, Dr Tim Morgan in Five Fiscal Fallacies
Tim Knox in the Yorkshire post
Tim Knox in the Yorkshire Post on why Cameron can’t change course on the deficit
What would lower earners prefer – lower taxes or cheaper energy? (Conservative Home)
Paul Goodman of Conservative Home commented on Tony Lodge’s lead Editor’s letter in The Telegraph on Thursday 21st February 2013.
Studies show turbines’ inefficiencies (Lutterworth Mail)
The CPS’ 2008 report ‘Wind Chill’ was cited in a recent letter to the Lutterworth Mail expressing concern about wind farms.
