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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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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.
Towards “A Treaty of Commerce”: Euroland and NAFTA Compared
Economics Consultant Keith Marsden compares and contrasts the benefits of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and members of the European Monetray Union (Euroland) in the report, Towards “A Treaty of Commerce”.
What are special education needs?
Since the 1970s, there has been a substantial growth in arrangements set up to look after pupils identified as having Special Educational Needs (or “SEN”). This has been accompanied by a rising tide of superficially persuasive rhetoric – emanating from a large special needs lobby and speaking a language which is often ambiguous but which gives the appearance of being compassionate.
Mr Blair’s Poodle
In this paper, Andrew Tyrie MP outlines how Parliament could be strengthened to more effectively hold the executive to account.
Home Pages: A New Agenda for the Next Government (Sir Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture)
Former Head of the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street during 1982-3, Ferdinand Mount delivers the Sir Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture on a new agenda for the home government.
The Five Per Cent Solution
In this paper, Keith Marsden examines Tony Blair’s decision to increase real terms health funding by 5 per cent per year.
The First Modernisers
To celebrate 25 years of the CPS, board member Matthew d’Ancona examines the legacy of the think-tank and its breadth of output.
Conservative Women
Tessa Keswick, Rosemary Pockley and Angela Guillaume discuss the role of women in today’s Conservative Party, and how the leadership must act now in order to win back the women’s vote in Conservative Women.
Kosovo Law and Diplomacy
In this paper, QC Mark examines the legal underpinnings surrounding the Kosovo issue.
The End of Illiteracy? The Holy Grail of Clackmannanshire
IN REAL TERMS, EDUCATION SPENDING in Britain has increased almost four-fold since the war, but most authorities agree that reading standards have hardly changed.
Happiness Can’t Buy Money
Maurice Saatchi looks at the way in which economics is perceived by people, and why the Conservative Party needs to rediscover its identity in this respect.
After the Landslide: learning the lessons of 1906 and 1945
In this paper, Conservative MP David Willetts examines the lessons that the Conservative Party can learn from previous landslide election defeats.
Plans, Plans, Plans: An education policy based on central control
New Labour’s two main education ambitions – to raise standards in schools and to offer real choice to parents – were admirable in their intentions: after all, as it stated in its Manifesto, nearly half of all 11-year-olds in England and Wales were unable to read well enough to cope with the secondary syllabus.
Handicap, Not Trump-Card
In this paper, economist Keith Marsden examines the statistical evidence and concludes that moves towards the Franco-German model of economic policy and harmonisation will be bad for Europe.
Fair Funding or Fiscal Fudge? Continuing Chaos in School Funding
Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education (CRE), Nick Seaton investigates the funding of schools and asks why the LEAs have far too much control over our schools in ‘Fair Funding or Fiscal Fudge?’
The War of Independence
Lord Maurice Saatchi and Peter Warburton look at Britain’s system of tax and spending and propose ways in which to modernise it for the 21st Century in The War of Independence.
