CPS joins US-UK think tanks to draft ideal free trade agreement
11 UK & US Think Tanks Produce Ideal Free Trade Agreement 11 Think Tanks in US and UK draft the legal text of an Ideal Free Trade Agreement; Simultaneous launches in the UK and US stress political and commercial will of securing a deal between world’s largest and 5th largest economies; Key policy innovations include:… View Article
Tories must welcome innovators to ‘reinvigorate capitalism’ says minister
Sam Gyimah MP, Minister of State of Universities, Science, Research, and Innovation, will call on the Conservative Party to “reinvigorate capitalism” by taking advantage of Britain’s position as a “global beacon of excellence” as it exits the EU. In a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, Gyimah will attack recent announcements from Jeremy Corbyn… View Article
Government must reform pensions tax relief to broaden Britain’s savings base
FIGURES SHOW UK HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS RATIO HAS HIT RECORD LOW Britain’s household savings ratio has plummeted to 4.9%, the lowest since records began in 1963. With savings rates falling and the top 1% of earners receiving double the pensions tax relief of half the working population, the time has come to reform the system. The… View Article
Being a Tory on tax shows you have brains — and the boffins can prove it
CPS Director Robert Colvile writes for the Sunday Times on the correlation between IQ and economic conservatism ‘…Yet the other new study — by Gary Lewis and Timothy Bates, psychologists at Royal Holloway in London, and Edinburgh — not only backs up his conclusions, but makes the causation much more clear. Its central finding is… View Article
Toby Young: Only selection can save Britain’s technical and vocational education system
Across British politics, there is a recognition that technical and vocational education has been badly neglected. The Government has recently made this one of its core priorities, via the introduction of T-levels for students aged 16 and over and new Institutes of Technology. This is particularly urgent, given our imminent departure from the European Union…. View Article
More than two million households support the elimination of mandatory deposits for renters
Think tank calls for alternative to help Generation Rent Polling by YouGov has shown that 43% of renters would support a system of deposit replacement insurance with a small cost rather than the current system of tenants paying large upfront deposits. A new report published by the Centre for Policy Studies finds the average renter… View Article
Royal Mail pensions plans “a risk too far” says Johnson
Royal Mail plans to offers its employees a Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pensions scheme risk undermining recently-gained pensions freedoms. ‘A Risk Too Far’, published today by the Centre for Policy Studies, also cautions against CDC schemes because of the system risks creating irreversible intergenerational injustice by overpaying pensioners at the expense of current and future… View Article
Democratic crisis requires urgent action
Laws covering both political campaigning and the structure and transparency of government must be changed to restore public faith in democracy, a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies argues today. With a foreword by the Rt Hon David Lidington, and being launched tonight by the Rt Hon Damian Green MP and Chloe Smith… 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
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
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 hosts major international conference on China-Britain relations
On Tuesday 19th June the Centre for Policy Studies will host their flagship Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain in the prestigious setting of the Guildhall, London. The conference will address the consequences of China’s rise to global prominence and the future relationship between Britain and China. There will be a particular focus on the future of trade between the two nations. The… View Article
Centre for Policy Studies calls on MPs to ensure NHS gets value for money
Following reports that three health think tanks have asked the Prime Minister to commit to real-term funding increases for the NHS of 4% every year, the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Robert Colvile, has written to Conservative Members of Parliament to voice the think tank’s significant concern that the discussion around funding has… View Article
CPS analysis shows NHS needs reform, not just cash
The topic of extra funding for the NHS is one of the most important in British politics. Yet new research from the Centre for Policy Studies highlights the neglected importance of how that funding is spent – and how it is paid for. This week, the IPPR and IFS have both called for higher taxes to fund the NHS,… View Article
CPS publishes ‘New Blue: Ideas for a New Generation’
The Centre for Policy Studies today publishes a landmark collection of policy essays, ‘New Blue: Ideas for a New Generation’, from rising stars of the 2015 & 2017 intakes of Tory MPs and other fresh voices. ‘New Blue’, which will be launched this evening by the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP at a reception in Parliament,… View Article
Are young people clamouring for Corbyn? New CPS polling sheds light on the new generation
The 2017 election showed that age has replaced class as the great electoral divide in British politics. In its wake, the question of whether and how the Conservatives can win back young voters has become a topic of intense discussion. Now, new polling by YouGov for the Centre for Policy Studies has provided the best… View Article
