Sunday Express: Only 9% of Britons have faith in government
“The British people are simultaneously sceptical of government and largely ignorant about it”, says Robert Colvile, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies. Robert is quoted in the Sunday Express, 22 July 2018, in respone to CPS polling that showed only 9% of Britons had significant faith in elected officials, while only 71% of those… View Article
Matt Warman MP: Fix Decline In Government Trust With Internet Education
Politicians “over-promising and under-delivering” means the public turn to people who make more extreme promises because they seem attractive, says Matt Warman MP in an interview with LBC. Matt spoke to Tom Swarbrick about the need restructure government so people feel more confident in elected officials’ ability to deliver the things people want. ‘Who Governs Britain?’… View Article
New polling shows crisis of faith in democracy
A new report by Matt Warman MP, ‘Who Governs Britain?’, sheds light on the huge disconnect between the public and the political system. With a maximum of only 9% of Britons placing significant faith in any layer of government to do the right thing by them, this is truly a crisis of confidence in our… View Article
Call for nurses to be paid annual cash bonuses in bid to raise NHS standards
“Nurses should be paid bonuses to reward better care of patients”, reports the Sun, Monday 2 July 2018. The proposal follows a CPS report – ‘An NHS Bonus’ – which found the present system only rewards senior doctors, leading to pay inequality within the healthcare system. The report also highlighted the misleading narrative around NHS… View Article
NHS pays moonlighting medics five times as much as Theresa May to plug gaps
“Because NHS pay [is] the same throughout the country, hospitals [have] no way of tempting doctors to work in undesirable areas”, reports The Telegraph, Monday 2 July 2018. That is one of the findings of ‘An NHS Bonus’, a report written by a consultant neurologist and published by the Centre for Policy Studies, which examined… View Article
NHS told to be more flexible on pay, reports The Times
“The NHS should be able to pay staff more in unpopular medical specialisms and in parts of the country where it finds recruitment difficult”, reports The Times, Monday 2 July 2018. That proposal is one of many put forward in a new CPS report ‘An NHS Bonus’, which examines the NHS’ opaque and outmoded pay… View Article
NHS pay system not fit for purpose
A new report by the Centre for Policy Studies examining the pay structure of the NHS argues that the current system is failing both staff and patients. The NHS as a whole employs approximately 1.7 million people making it, famously, the fifth biggest employer on the planet. Almost two thirds of its budget goes towards… View Article
A win for those spending ministers would be a defeat for the taxpayer
“Ministers who should be seen as winners are those who come forwar with proposals for reform that save money and deliver better outcomes”, writes Alex Morton in his column for Conservative Home, 28 June 2018. In his piece, Alex argues that the Coalition government made a costly error by focusing on austerity not prosperity and… View Article
New Blue proposals on mental health adopted by government
The government is set to announce a new mental health deal for university students, as called for by Helen Whately MP in an essay published by the Centre for Policy Studies, reports The Guardian, Thursday 28 June 2018. The essay, published as part of the ‘New Blue: Ideas for a New Generation’ collection, highlighted the combination of… View Article
Any ideas for saving, not spending, taxpayers’ money? Anyone?
There are “far more ideas aired that involve the state spending more, and too few that involve spending less”, writes Robert Colvile in The Times, Wednesday 27 June 2018. To remedy that, the Centre for Policy Studies is launched a savings competition asking MPs and others to come up with ideas to save the taxpayer money “to… View Article
Think tank launches drive to save taxpayers billions
Following the launch of ‘New Blue: Ideas for a New Generation’, the Centre for Policy Studies has called on MPs to help the Treasury save taxpayers billions of pounds ahead of the next Budget. Last week, the Government announced £20bn further investment in the NHS by 2023/24. In order to balance the books, cutting wasteful… View Article
CPS Director on The Week in Westminster
As Theresa May annouced the country will “contribute more” in order to fund a 3.4% funding increased for the NHS, Robert Colvile joined BBC Radio 4’s The Week at Westminster to discuss funding. Robert spoke about recent CPS analysis which showed the NHS’ historically responding to funding increases with decreasing productivity, “as extra money goes into… View Article
Britain needs reminding of China’s challenges and opportunities
Margaret Thatcher recognised that China was “a country with which Britain could – and must – do business” and the Centre for Policy Studies, which she co-founded, shares that belief, writes Robert Colvile, CPS Director. Writing ahead of the Centre for Policy Studies flagship Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain, Robert Colvile outlines the reason behind… View Article
Liam Fox – Improving our trade with China is a major step on the path to prosperity
China is facing “challenges and opportunities” following its economic reorientation but the UK is a “natural partner” to support China in this, writes Dr Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for International Trade, in The Telegraph, Tuesday 19 June 2018. Writing ahead of his speech to the Centre for Policy Studies flaship Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain,… View Article
International trade secretary Liam Fox urges China to play its part in ending tariffs dispute
International trade secretary Liam Fox urged China to “play it’s part” in ending the escalating trade war with the United States, reports City A.M. Liam Fox used his speech to the Centre for Policy Studies Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain to call on international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation to “operate more effectively in… View Article
Lord Saatchi calls on Theresa May to ensure NHS improvements
Lord Saatchi, chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, urges Theresa May to ensure the NHS spends any funding increases appropriately, highlighting CPS research showing higher spending tends to co-incide with lower efficiency. Writing in The Sun, Lord Saatchi says it is right to be proud of the NHS but we should “feel shame at the… View Article
