Damian Green slams ‘ruthless’ social media companies in call for digital election rules crackdown
Political campaigning posts on social media should be regulated in a similar way to printed materials, said Damian Green, in comments to the Centre for Policy Studies, reports Sky News. Speaking at the launch of ‘Who Governs Britain?’, Green backed the report’s proposal calling for an online version of the traditional political imprint, saying “There needs… View Article
The Times: Confidence in democracy and MPs ‘at crisis point’
Online political advertisments and targeted campaigns should carry an imprint similar to those on printed election materials in order to boost trust in politics, says Matt Warman MP. The idea is just one of many put forward in ‘Who Governs Britain?’, a new report published by the Centre for Policy Studies as part of its… View Article
Tell voters who is really to blame, says the Daily Mail
The public should be able to find out which elected official is behind a decision and why it was made, reports the Daily Mail, Monday 23 July 2018. That is one of a number of policy proposals that tries to address to gap between politicians and the public as polling shows the public don’t trust… View Article
Brits feel disconnected with the politicians who represent them, says The Sun on Sunday
Exclusive polling for the Centre for Policy Studies reveals that when people are asked which elected politicians act most in the publics’ best interests, the most popular answer is “none of them”, reports The Sun on Sunday, 22 July 2018. The polling, comissioned ahead of the release of new report ‘Who Governs Britain?2 by Matt… View Article
Matt Warman: Closing the gulf between the politicians and the people
Almost three in ten people don’t even know MPs make laws that affect them and 40% of people have no trust in parish councils, local authorities, or the House of Commons, writes Matt Warman MP. Matt, whose report ‘Who Governs Britain?’ is published by the Centre for Policy Studies today, sets out the scale of the… View Article
Fewer than one in 10 people have faith in local and national governments
David Lidington has warned of the risk of “long-term damage to mainstream politics” is the gulf between the public and politics isn’t addressed, reports The Sunday Telegraph, Sunday 22 July. Lidington’s warning came in the foreword to ‘Who Governs Britain?’, a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies and written by Matt Warman MP… View Article
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
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
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
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
