Ike Ijeh discusses placemaking and the housing crisis on Channel 4 News PolicyExchangeUK 2023-07-28 | ...
Skills, Efficiency and Technology How we equip the Civil Service to deliver better for Britain PolicyExchangeUK 2023-07-20 | Skills, Efficiency and Technology How we equip the Civil Service to deliver better for Britain withRt. Hon Jeremy Quin MPPaymaster General andMinister for the Cabinet Office chaired byLord GodsonDirector, Policy Exchange
Iain Mansfield on rip-off university degrees and why we need more apprenticeships PolicyExchangeUK 2023-07-18 | ...
Freedom of Speech and the Leaders of Tomorrow PolicyExchangeUK 2023-07-06 | Freedom of Speech and the Leaders of Tomorrow’A speech by Claire Coutinho MPMinister, Department for EducationChaired byLord GodsonDirector, Policy Exchange
Dave Spencer talks to Mike Graham about the Met Polices Thin Blue Line badge ban PolicyExchangeUK 2023-07-03 | ...
AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific Century: Scott Morrison in conversation with Air Chief Marshal Lord Peach PolicyExchangeUK 2023-06-22 | AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific CenturyHon Scott MorrisonPrime Minister of Australia 2018-22Founder of AUKUS agreementin conversation withAir Chief Marshal Lord Peach GBE KCB DLFormer Chief of the Defence StaffFormer Chairman, NATO Military Committee
Fighting Crime: Turning Round the Met PolicyExchangeUK 2023-06-09 | Fighting Crime and Disorder:The Turnaround of the MetSir Mark Rowley QPMCommissioner of Police of the MetropolisIn conversation withSir Trevor Philips OBESenior Fellow, Policy Exchange
Race to Net Zero: Can the Energy Bill Unlock our Low-Carbon Economy? PolicyExchangeUK 2023-06-08 | Race to Net Zero: Can the Energy Bill Unlock our Low-Carbon Economy? A speech by Andrew Bowie MPMinister of State for Nuclear & Networks and afterin conversation withNina Skorupska CBECEO, The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA)andAlex SimakovSenior Research FellowEnergy & Environment, Policy ExchangeThe discussion will be followed by a Q&A with our audience.
Ukraine: Have we recognised the strategic moment? PolicyExchangeUK 2023-05-26 | Ukraine: Have we recognised the strategic moment?withLieutenant GeneralBen Hodges (USA, Ret.)Former Commanding General, US Army EuropeIn conversation withRt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KTFormer Secretary General of NATO chaired byLord Godson Director, Policy Exchange
Sir Keir Starmer calls for reform of the Apprenticeship Levy at PMQs PolicyExchangeUK 2023-05-25 | ...
Dr James Vitali on the housing crisis PolicyExchangeUK 2023-05-24 | Dr James Vitali talks to LBC about the Housing Crisis in the UK, the added pressures of high immigration levels and new reports calling for 600,000 new homes to be built a year.
Dr James Vitali on Labours Housing Policy PolicyExchangeUK 2023-05-18 | Greenbelts are a thorny issue when it comes to housing and planning policy. They work as a constraint against urban sprawl, but they have also ballooned in size since their introduction and represent a key obstacle to housebuilding in areas of high demand.Keir Starmer has announced that he will support 'builders' over 'blockers' and facilitate housebuilding in areas of the greenbelt. But will the Labour Party follow through? And how do their ambitions on this subject align with their commitment to give local communities greater say over development in their constituencies?Dr James Vitali, author of Policy Exchange's report Homes for Growth, talks through some of these issues on Times Radio.
The Grotius Prize - Presented to Giorgia Meloni PolicyExchangeUK 2023-04-28 | The Grotius Prize was today presented to Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government, during her visit to Policy Exchange in London today, in recognition of her stalwart support for Ukraine.Accepting the Grotius Prize from Lord Godson, Director of Policy Exchange, she said:“It is a time of uncertainty and crisis. A time in which all of us – as individuals, populations and Nations - have the opportunity to prove ourselves. A crisis can be the engine of a choice, of an action, of a change. From a crisis we can emerge stronger and freer. And we can track the direction of a new path. A path in which we must have the ability to preserve what is precious and irreplaceable. Our identity, our history, our values. The civilization we built.“We don’t stand with Ukraine because we like the war, we stand with Ukraine because what we want to defend is stronger than the fear of war.”
Sovereign Borders in an Age of Mass Migration PolicyExchangeUK 2023-04-26 | Sovereign Borders in an Age of Mass MigrationwithRt Hon Robert Jenrick MPMinister of State for Immigrationchaired byLord Godson Director, Policy Exchange
Rakib Ehsan talks to GB News about the Rwanda Policy and the Illegal Migration Bill PolicyExchangeUK 2023-04-21 | ...
Breaking the Impasse:The Great Debate on University Funding PolicyExchangeUK 2023-04-13 | Policy Exchange hosted a debate on university funding this week, chaired by Sir Philip Augar. Durham Vice-Chancellor and Warden Professor Karen O’Brien set out the urgent need for reform, in the context of repeated real terms cuts to funding per student, and the UK’s International Education Champion Sir Steve Smith set out how other nations, including the US, Australia and Germany have approached the challenge. Three principal ideas were then proposed: former Universities Minister, Rt Hon Lord Johnson of Marylebone, proposed that universities with high quality teaching should be allowed to raise their fees; former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening set out the case for a graduate tax, while Policy Exchange’s Head of Education Iain Mansfield argued for the reintroduction of number controls, so that the places we need can be properly funded and supported.---Breaking the Impasse:The Great Debate on University Fundingwith Rt Hon Lord Johnson of MaryleboneFormer Minister for Universities and ScienceRt Hon Justine GreeningFormer Secretary of State for EducationProfessor Sir Steve Smith UK International Education ChampionProfessor Karen O’BrienVice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham UniversityIain MansfieldDirector of Research and Head of Education and Science, Policy ExchangeChaired bySir Philip AugarChair of the Post-18 Education Review Panel
Achieving Smokefree 2030: Cutting Smoking and Stopping Kids Vaping PolicyExchangeUK 2023-04-12 | Neil O'Brien OBE MP, Minister for Primary Care and Public Health, delivered a keynote address at Policy Exchange. In his address the Minister announced a world-first 'swap to stop' scheme whereby a million smokers will be offered a vaping kit following successful pilots in Bath and Sheffield. A new incentive to help pregnant women quit, alongside a call for evidence to clamp down on youth vaping were also announced as the Government responded to last year's independent Khan Review. The event was widely covered in the national press outlets and broadcast outlets, including the BBC, The Financial Times, The Times, i news, Mirror, Politico, Bloomberg UK, Evening Standard and Time Magazine. The event was also covered in key trade press outlets, The Grocer, The Pharmaceutical Journal, Medscape and Pulse. Coverage in local press outlets included The Bolton News and Express & Star.---Achieving Smokefree 2030: Cutting Smoking and Stopping Kids VapingwithNeil O’Brien OBE MPMinister for Primary Care and Public Healthchaired byDr Sean PhillipsHead of Health and Social Care, Policy Exchange
Iain Mansfield talks to Mike Graham about Transgender Policies in schools. PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-31 | ...
Sophia Gaston talks to Sky News about the Kings state visit to Germany PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-31 | ...
Lottie Moore talks to Nick Ferrari about transgender policies in schools PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-31 | ...
Iain Mansfield talks to the Today Programme about Trans Policies in Schools PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-30 | ...
Lottie Moore talks to Times Radio about trans policies and safeguarding in schools PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-30 | ...
Lottie Moore on transgender guidelines and safeguarding in schools PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-30 | A new report by Policy Exchange today reveals that schools are increasingly becoming influenced by gender ideology, to the extent that fundamental safeguarding principles are being compromised by school’s approaches to children with gender distress and their peers.New research within this report demonstrates that many schools are failing to routinely inform parents when a child discloses gender distress, compromising single-sex spaces, and many are teaching gender identity beliefs within Relationships, Sex & Health Education (RSHE) as if they are facts. Gender affirmative care is prevalent within the school system, despite this being at odds with safeguarding principles that have been enshrined in law for decades.The report also highlights how gender identity beliefs came to be so embedded within the school system, by tracking the influence of external agencies promoting radical and unscientific beliefs within both the Department for Education and schools themselves. This has created a safeguarding blind spot when it comes to the issue of gender, which must be rectified urgently.Read the Report here: policyexchange.org.uk/publication/asleep-at-the-wheel
What Is The Future For Vaccines Policy? PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-27 | What Is The Future For Vaccines Policy? WithDr Jenny Harries OBEChief Executive, UK Health Security Agency Susan RienowUK Country President, Pfizer; Vice-President,Association of the British Pharmaceutical IndustryThorrun GovindChair, English Pharmacy Board,Royal Pharmaceutical Society Head Chaired bySean PhillipsHead of Health and Social Care, Policy Exchange
The Budget: Examining the Aftermath PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-21 | Policy Exchange brought together a panel of leading figures in Westminster to discuss the Budget.Juliet Samuel, Times Columnist and Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, chaired the discussion, and was joined by Richard Hughes, Chair of the OBR; Ruth Kelly, former Cabinet Minister and Economic Secretary to the Treasury under Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair, Bim Afolami MP, Founder of the Regulatory Reform Group, and Connor MacDonald, Head of Economics at Policy Exchange.With a large audience both online and in person, the panel discussed the Government’s childcare offer, what measures may most impact business investment, and the longer-term outlook.
Sir Noel Malcolm on The Elgin Marbles PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-21 | Sir Noel Malcolm sits down with Times Radio to discuss the Elgin Marbles and his latest report for Policy Exchange. You can read the report here: policyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-elgin-marblesA new report published by Policy Exchange dismantles the arguments made for the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens and sets out the clear rationale for retaining them at the British Museum. An embargoed draft copy of the report is attached to this email.This vital and timely intervention comes ahead of a meeting of the Trustees of the British Museum later this week, following months of media speculation that the British Museum is negotiating with Greece to agree a long term ‘loan’ of the marbles .The report contends that there would be a significant risk of non-return if the Marbles were lent to Greece.Separate polling commissioned by Policy Exchange suggests that the public agree: only 11% find it likely that the sculptures would be returned at the end of the loan period.It would also set a precedent, prompting calls for the return of many other cultural objects in institutions across the world. 47% of people find it likely that the return on the Marbles would set a dangerous precedent; only 13% thought it unlikely.The report’s author, Sir Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, concludes that:“The Elgin Marbles are the Crown Jewels of the British Museum, a national museum with a universal mission. We should feel proud of our ability to show them to the world in London. There is nothing to apologise for here.”He concludes: ‘the one country whose desire to exhibit them raises a truly insoluble problem is Greece, precisely because of the claims it makes.’Tim Loughton MP, Chair of the British Museum All-Party Parliamentary Group writes in support of the paper:“Over the last 264 years the British Museum has brought together one of the most important collections of cultural treasures showcasing the achievements of mankind from every corner of the globe. It is a world museum open for free for the world to see and appreciate. It is one of the most visited cultural institutions on the planet and one of its longest standing and most popular exhibits remains the Elgin Marbles. Recent siren calls by celebrity backed campaigns funded by millionaire plastic magnates to give the Marbles to Greece are misguided and dangerous and threaten to open the floodgates for the despoilation of our world institutions. Noel Malcolm’s report for Policy Exchange brings a welcome injection of fact and good sense to a recently confected debate that completely misunderstands the role of world museums, and which worryingly treats some of the world’s greatest cultural treasures as mere bargaining chips for diplomatic or political advantage.”Sir Noel Malcolm analyses all the issues involved. He finds that:• the claim that Elgin’s removal of the sculptures was illegal is false;• the claim that his actions were invalidated by coercive bribery is false;• the claim that he acted against the clear wishes of the Greek community is certainly unproven and probably false;• the claim that his actions saved the Marbles from an ongoing process of serious damage, dispersal and destruction is certainly true.Where current arguments in favour of the return of the Marbles are concerned, he finds that:• the claim that this would reassemble the original artwork is false;• the claim that Greek identity is essentially harmed by their absence from Greece is greatly exaggerated.Where current arguments in favour of keeping the Marbles are concerned, he finds that:• over more than 200 years they have become part of Britain’s cultural heritage;• their removal would harm the status of the British Museum as a universal or encyclopaedic museum of world cultures;• their removal would be treated as a precedent for many future returns of objects.Where the idea of a long-term loan to Athens is concerned, he finds that:• the British Museum must not lend items to a country or institution which does not recognise the Museum’s valid ownership of those items;• whatever promises Athens makes, or whatever items it offers in temporary exchange, the risks that the Marbles will not be returned to London are too great.He recommends that:• the government should affirm its support for retaining the Marbles, and should make no change to the current law, which does not permit the Museum to give them away;• the Museum should revise its loans policy, explicitly excluding loans to countries which do not recognise the Museum’s ownership of the objects concerned.
Dr Gerard Lyons on the Budget and Corporation Tax PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-16 | Dr Gerard Lyons, Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange talks to The World at One on BBC Radio 4 about the Spring Budget 2023, Childcare Funding, and the changes to Corporation Tax.
Chris Brannigan talks to Nick Ferrari about the Integrated Review PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-14 | Senior Fellow Chris Brannigan talks to Nick Ferrari about the Integrated Review and the Aukus pact.
Outpacing the Autocrats and Defending Britains Interests PolicyExchangeUK 2023-03-01 | Outpacing the Autocrats and Defending Britain's Interestswith Alicia Kearns MPChair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Chaired bySophia GastonHead of Foreign Policy and UK Resilience,Policy Exchange
The Prevent Review: Where next? PolicyExchangeUK 2023-02-27 | The Prevent Review: Where next?withRt Hon Priti Patel MPFormer Home SecretaryLord Carlile of Berriew CBE KCFormer Independent Reviewer of PreventSir John Jenkins KCMG LVO Co-author of the Muslim Brotherhood Review,Senior Fellow, Policy ExchangeDame Sara KhanFormer Lead Commissioner,Commission for Countering Extremism Khalid Mahmood MPChair of APPG on Tackling TerrorismChaired byLord Godson Director, Policy Exchange
Review of Electricity Market Arrangements and the Future of British Energy PolicyExchangeUK 2023-02-21 | Decarbonisation, Digitalisation, Decentralisation: Review of Electricity Market Arrangements and the Future of British Energy With:John Penrose MP Member of Parliament for Weston-super-MareLaura Sandys CBE Chair of the Energy Digitalisation Taskforce Kuljit Bains Head of Forward Trading, E.ON UKAndy Manning Principal Policy Manager;Energy Networks & Systems, Citizens AdviceChaired byAlex Simakov Senior Research Fellow,Policy Exchange
Roderick Crawford and Arlene Foster discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol PolicyExchangeUK 2023-02-10 | Roderick Crawford sits down with Arlene Foster on GB News to talk about the Northern Ireland Protocol.A new report published by Policy Exchange, with a foreword from Boris Johnson’s former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost, shows that the Protocol has failed to protect the Good Friday Agreement based on the EU’s own measures.As negotiations between the UK and EU continue, this new paper demonstrates how an ‘Irish interpretation’ of the Good Friday Agreement shaped EU thinking and its negotiations, and how, to get a formal commitment to alignment of Northern Ireland with the EU, they redefined ‘avoiding a hard border’ from a peace process issue to a legal requirement of the Good Friday Agreement.It never was. Yet this has hardwired an imbalance into the Protocol, with the result that it not only does not work operationally, as even the EU admits, but has failed politically.See Roderick's latest papers on the Northern Ireland Protocol here:policyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-northern-ireland-protocolpolicyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-northern-ireland-protocol-2
DEEP DIVE: The Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill PolicyExchangeUK 2023-01-27 | In the latest episode of the Agenda, Juliet Samuels interviews Dr Michael Foran, lecturer in Law at the University of Glasgow and Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange on the controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. Dr Foran explores some of the most pressing themes in his recent Policy Exchange report, which is available to read here.policyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-scottish-gender-recognition-reform-billThis report demonstrates that the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which aims to change the law regulating legal sex change for those born or resident in Scotland, will fundamentally alter the law relating to equal opportunities across the United Kingdom.The report argues that the United Kingdom Government can – and should – make a section 35 order under the Scotland Act 1998 to block Royal assent for the Bill, which would prevent it from becoming law.
Unleashing Capital: The Government’s Next Steps for Financial Services, Levelling Up and Growth PolicyExchangeUK 2023-01-25 | Andrew Griffith MP, Financial Secretary to the TreasuryKitty Ussher, Chief Economist, Institute of DirectorsMike Eakins, Chief Investment Officer, Phoenix GroupConnor MacDonald, Head of Economics and Social Policy, Policy Exchange
Connor MacDonald speaks to Kait Borsay about benefits and the labour market PolicyExchangeUK 2023-01-13 | ...
Double vision: A roadmap to expand medical school places PolicyExchangeUK 2022-12-16 | Double vision: A roadmap to expand medical school placesA keynote speech byWes Streeting MPShadow Secretary of State forHealth and Social Care
Defending Democracy in an age of State Threats PolicyExchangeUK 2022-12-13 | Defending Democracy in an age of State Threats A keynote speech byRt Hon Tom Tugendhat MBE MPMinister for SecurityChaired byLord GodsonDirector, Policy Exchange
Dr Andrew Murrison MP and Dr Liam Fox MP discuss their new report: Brits in High Places PolicyExchangeUK 2022-12-08 | A new report published by Policy Exchange maps the country’s success in securing key international appointments over time and anticipates a cut-throat future where diplomacy, soft power and influence must be refined and reformed.Co-authored by senior Conservative MPs Liam Fox and Andrew Murisson, with a foreword from Labour peer and former Secretary General of NATO Lord Robertson, the report concludes that the UK does not take seeking leadership positions in international companies sufficiently seriously, allowing other countries to dominate global and regional organisations.If the UK’s place in the world is to be protected and our role promoted, Britain’s record in putting the right people in the right places within supragovernmental organisations need to urgently improve.
Keynote Speech by Hon John Howard PolicyExchangeUK 2022-11-23 | The Challenges facingModern Conservatism A keynote speech byHon John Howard OM ACformer Prime Minister of Australiachaired byLord GodsonDirector, Policy Exchange
Sean Phillips discusses reports NHS Scotland had discussed charging wealthy users for services PolicyExchangeUK 2022-11-23 | ...
