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Wednesday 27th January, 2010
Interview: Policy Exchange
Politics.co.uk interviews Policy Exchange's Director Neil O'Brien
"It's not Policy Exchange's fault the Conservatives like their policies. They're a centre-right thinktank. They can't help it."
"Take Grant Shapps, for example, the party's shadow housing minister. Little did I realise when I reported on his 'right-to-move' proposal last spring that this policy had come, more or less, straight from the Policy Exchange stable. "Sometimes you know you just have a neat idea which nobody has come up with before," the thinktank's director Neil O'Brien tells me proudly. The right-to-move policy was adopted within two weeks. Not a bad turnaround for 'David Cameron's favourite thinktank'."
