Labour has outflanked Osborne on the UK’s long-term welfare timebomb (City AM)
Ryan Bourne, writes for City AM on how Labour’s Ed Balls has been the first to say that we should seek to cap overall social security spending.
Troops to Teachers, from think-tank to classroom (BBC News)
Tom Burkard, author of the CPS report ‘From Troop to Teachers’ and co-founder of the Phoenix Free School, is profiled by BBC News.
Prime Minister backs principle of CPS bank shares idea, as IMF urge re-privatisation of RBS and Lloyds
Prime Minister backs principle of CPS bank shares idea, as IMF urge re-privatisation of RBS and Lloyds asap
Cameron backs plan to give RBS shares to public (The Times)
The Times report that David Cameron is considering a share giveaway reprivatisation of RBS, as proposed by the CPS in “Give Us Our Fair Shares”.
Coverage of Michael Gove MP’s Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture
The 2013 Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture delivered by the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove MP has received extensive coverage.
Simplify planning laws and Garden Cities could solve our housing crisis (City A.M.)
Keith Boyfield discusses how simplifying planning laws and Garden Cities could solve the UK’s housing crisis.
An end to ring-fencing
The Centre for Policy Studies joined together with five other centre-right think-tanks to call for an end to ring-fencing.
Kathy Gyngell debates nurseries on ITV’s This Morning
Research Fellow Kathy Gyngell speaks on the disadvantages of nurseries on ITV’s This Morning.
KATHY GYNGELL: Yes, minister, you’re right, nurseries ARE bad for children…
CPS research fellow Kathy Gyngell questions nursery care in the Mail Online. Young children “need commitment and one-to-one time with their mother or father, and family time”. She calls for a neutral tax system that does not penalise mothers for staying at home
The Maggies – A new award honouring Lady Thatcher’s legacy
A new award will be launched by the Centre for Policy Studies to honour the work of those who have done most to build on the great achievements of Margaret Thatcher.
Nuclear industry at risk over ministers’ dithering, experts warn (The Telegraph)
Tony Lodge writes for the Sunday Telegraph on how an escalating tax on carbon emissions and lack of nuclear plants being built, could lead Britain to be stuck with the levy but few alternative sources of energy
Forget Oscars, now you can have a Maggie on your mantelpiece: New political award in memory of Lady Thatcher to be bestowed on high achieving politicians (Mail Online)
New political award in memory of Lady Thatcher administered by the Centre for Policy Studies. Tim Knox states that Britain needed a Thatcherism for the 21st Century, new awards will honour ‘those who do the most to achieve this’.
Brought to Book (The Spectator)
George Trefgarne’s CPS Publication Metroboom was quoted by Martin Vander Weyer in The Spectator on 20 April 2013.
The drug zealot I exposed a decade ago and how the BBC’s promoting his plan for heroin ‘shooting galleries’ (Mail Online)
Melanie Phillips cites CPS Research Fellow Kathy Gyngell’s blog in her Daily Mail article on Friday 19 April 2013.
