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Who Wins Under Labour?
‘Who Wins Under Labour?’ shows how fiscal drag – where frozen tax thresholds pull more workers into higher tax bands as wages rise – will quietly erode living standards for millions of middle earners over the coming years.
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Leviathan at Large
In this paper, the authors explore the regulatory framework put forward by Labour for the financial services industry.
Unlocking Growth
In this paper, Patrick Burgess examines proposals to exapnd venture capital investment activity in the UK.
Can Consignia Deliver? & Simplicity and Stability
In these two pieces, Stuart Lyons explains how the Post Office could be privatised, while Lord Howe explores two key principles of a good long-term tax system.
Ofcom is Watching You
In this paper, George Trefgarne examines the implications of the establishment of Ofcom.
Limits to EU Integration (The Fifth Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture)
Lord Owen delivers the fifth Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture, where he proposes eight amendments to the Union Treaties to ensure national sovereignty, as well as the growth of a more dynamic Europe, in Limits to EU Integration.
The Bad Samaritan: The War of Independence Part Two
What to do? The War of Independence: a Declaration proposed by a radical reform of the tax and benefit system. The plan was to raise the income threshold, below which people do not pay tax, from its present level of £4,300 to £15,000.
Unfair Funding
In October 1996, the Centre for Policy Studies published the first ever tables of school funding.
The great and good? The rise of the new class
The Prime Minister has a vision of a New Britain. Central to this vision is the creation of a “New Class”, a new elite placed in positions of authority, who will propagate the new spirit of the age and spread the principles of the Third Way across Britain.
The Betrayed Generations – Standards in British Schools 1950-2000
OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS education has risen up the political agenda in Britain primarily because of widespread concern about low standards. There are enormous variations in standards from school to school – even with schools of the same type in similar areas.
A Raw Deal for Lone Parents: Evaluating the Evidence
Gordon brown announced the New Deal for Lone Parents in his July 1997 Budget. Harriet Harman, then Secretary of State for Social Security, claimed ‘nearly all lone parents want to work… They want to work, not despite their children, but because of them’… we will hope lone mothers get off benefit and into work’.
Second Amongst Equals
Tessa Keswick argues for a radical reform in the recent Conservative Party attitude to women in the report, ‘Second Amongst Equals.’
Nice and After: The EU Treaty and Associated Issues
In this paper, Briain Hindley examines the implications of the EU Treaty of Nice.
Nice and Beyond: The Parting of the Ways
In this paper, Christopher Booker examines the implications of the Treaty of Nice.
Can self-government survive? Britain and the European Union
In this paper, Nevil Johnson seeks to look again at the peculiar challenges that the evolution of the EU presents to a nation like Britain which remains for the most part doubtful about the onward march to ‘ever closer union.
Freedom for Schools
Member of the Number 10 Policy Unit from 1995 – 1997, Sean Williams looks at the current education system and recommends ways in which the leadership of schools can have the freedom and authority to run them as they like best, while also remaining accountable to the public.
