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How Many Homes Does the UK Need?
Decades of lacklustre housebuilding and recent record migration have left the UK with a shortfall of more than 6.5 million homes. The debut research by Head of Housing Ben Hopkinson shows how the UK has fallen dramatically behind comparable European countries, with British families paying the price through unaffordable homes.
The Facts About Fugitive Methane
Methane, the main component of natural gas, has a high greenhouse potential, and opponents of shale gas production argue that even if one or two percent of the gas leaks, the advantage of natural gas over coal would be negated.
An ISA-Centric Savings World
Michael Johnson slams the current system of pension tax relief and urges the Government to usher in a new era of ISA-centric savings.
Not out of the woods yet
With the Spending Review looming, the Government should use the opportunity to implement further supply side reforms and deficit reduction measures to ensure that UK economic growth and labour market performance remain strong.
Ending the ratchet: from ever closer union to a two way street
Britain should make reforms to EU institutions to end the ‘ratchet’ effort – embodied in the commitment to ever-closer union – central to its renegotiation plans, writes Andrew Tyrie MP.
The Green Revolution We Need and its Anti-Science Opponents
Failing to embrace technological progress is endangering the environment, the economy and millions of lives.
Corbynomics: A Path to Penury
Corbynomics is based on the false premise that Britain is a free market nirvana. Britain needs much deeper pro-market reforms not a return to nationalisation.
The Enterprise Right to Buy
The Government should extend Right to Buy to commercial tenants. This could increase development and help reduce the deficit.
How to Privatise the High Street
The Government should enhance Business Improvement Districts and support locally-lead regeneration of Britain’s streets.
A First Steps Budget
“For spoilers ahead of the Autumn Statement later this year, you could do worse than to look at anything coming out from the Centre for Policy Studies”
The Essential Importance of Improved Productivity
The Government must take an all-encompassing approach to tackle the UK’s productivity problem.
The Workplace ISA and the ISA Pension
Introduce a Workplace ISA and ISA Pensions and reduce the deficit by up to £10 billion per year.
Welfare Dependency Falls But Still Much Further To Go
Over half of all UK households are still receiving more from the state than they pay in taxes.
The Case for an Office for Inter-generational Responsibility
Michael Johnson responds to the OBR’s latest annual Fiscal Sustainability report, warning that UK debt is snowballing with frightening momentum – and it is the young who will be hit hardest.
The Poodle Bites Back: Select Committees and the Revival of Parliament
Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, argues that despite the ‘anti-politics’ mood in the UK, the House of Commons is achieving notable success in reforming itself into a more effective institution.
How to cut Inheritance Tax
Make inheritance tax fairer by simplifying the system with a broader base and lower rate, and eliminating many of the existing inefficient tax reliefs.
Who will care for Generation Y?
Michael Johnson warns that Generation Y could be the first generation to experience a quality of life below that of its (baby boomer) parents.
