• Bernard Hogan-Howe on Total Policing

    In Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe’s first public speech following the London Mayoral election he provided a key insight into his plans for improving policing in the capital, and how he intends to reform Scotland Yard itself in line with his philosophy of ‘Total Policing’.

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    Bernard Hogan-Howe speech

  • Nurturing Nature

    Policy to protect and improve biodiversity

    Nurturing Nature examines natural environment policy in England, and the UK’s international contribution to protecting important habitats and biodiversity. It recommends policy measures to not just halt the decline in the state of the natural environment, but to restore and improve it.

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    Biodiversity

  • Iain Duncan Smith on welfare reform

    Secretary of State for Work & Pensions Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP delivered a keynote speech on the government's welfare reforms and helping people back in to work at the second Leonard Steinberg Memorial Lecture.

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    IDS on welfare reform

  • Northern Lights

    Public policy and the geography of political attitudes in Britain today

    A major study into public attitudes – Northern Lights – examines the new political and social geography of England and finds that social differences in England today are as much about town and country as north and south.

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    Northern Lights

  • Wolfson Economics Prize

    The Wolfson Economics Prize, which challenges the world’s brightest economists to prepare a contingency plan for a break-up of the Eurozone, today unveiled a shortlist of five finalists. The shortlisted entries, though all very different from each other, provide valuable ideas about how best to manage a member state leaving the euro.

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  • Nurturing Nature: Policy to protect and improve biodiversity

    11 May 2012 | Nurturing Nature: Policy to protect and improve biodiversity

    • The planning system is failing to protect some of England's most threatened wildlife and important habitats. Nurturing Nature finds that mechanisms designed to protect England's natural environment and compensate for any damage to it are haphazardly applied and woefully monitored.

  • Northern Lights: Public policy and the geography of political attitudes in Britain today

    27 April 2012 | Northern Lights: Public policy and the geography of political attitudes in Britain today

    • Is there a north-south divide political divide? A major study into public attitudes – Northern Lights – examines the new political and social geography of England. The research finds that the way people vote is less and less determined by their social class, and more by how they think the government is performing and their attitudes to controversial issues like migration and crime.

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Blogs

  • Fifteen years on incapacity benefit, then told you are fit to work. It's a very big moment

    15 May 2012 | Fifteen years on incapacity benefit, then told you are fit to work. It's a very big moment

    • With new figures revealing that huge numbers of people previously claiming Incapacity Benefit are now being deemed capable of some form of work Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien points out that this new influx of newly capable workers will be a big shock to jobcentres and the welfare system.

  • Benefits: the disabled and deserving?

    14 May 2012 | Benefits: the disabled and deserving?

    • Policy Exchange Director Neil O'Brien makes the case for a carefully thought out reform of disability benefits. Neil stresses the importance of getting the tone of the reforms right in order to prevent those claiming DLA being seen as "spongers".

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Latest Events

  • Diane Abbott keynote speech

    17 May 2012 | Diane Abbott keynote speech

    • Diane Abbott MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health, will deliver a speech providing fresh, new thinking on  health and families - marking her intention to put families at the heart of policies on public health, calling for a ‘family-led health revolution’, and warning of the far-reaching consequences of Britain’s ‘forgotten families’.

  • Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM on Total Policing: Reform Priorities for London and Scotland Yard

    15 May 2012 | Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM on Total Policing: Reform Priorities for London and Scotland Yard

    • This event will be Bernard Hogan-Howe’s first public speech following the London Mayoral election and will provide a key insight into his plans for improving policing in the capital, and how he intends to reform Scotland Yard itself in line with his philosophy of ‘Total Policing’.

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