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Thinktank calls for ‘double lock’ England private rent cap to ease living costs

Influential IPPR proposes capping rents at whichever is lower of consumer price inflation or wage growthUK politics live – latest updatesOne of the thinktanks closest to the Labour...

Craig Smith: The environment, the economy and how both play into common sense Conservatism

You cannot protect the environment by undermining the economy. If businesses are overburdened, if energy costs spiral out of control, and if families are priced out of everyday ess...

Callum Murphy and Luke Robert Black: From Canary Wharf and Canning Town – what younger urban voters are really telling C...

Many younger urban voters already share core Conservative instincts: belief in aspiration, enterprise, and a desire for a fair link between effort and reward. What was missing was...

Tories Publish ‘Alternative King’s Speech’

A good stunt from the Tories, who this week published their alternative King’s Speech: The whole package is framed around a £47 billion savings plan. Funded by welfare cuts and civ...

Even Blair's think tank says it's too easy to get benefits in Starmer's Britain

A study by Tony Blair's think tank highlights widespread public support for halting payments for conditions like anxiety, depression and stress.

Conservative manifesto 'may not survive contact with reality', according to top economists

The Institute of Fiscal Studies warns the Conservative manifesto will push families into poverty and lower standards in public services.

Nicholas Boys Smith: Five ideas for new councillors

Here are some policies for homes, trams and high streets, street scars and street trees. The post Nicholas Boys Smith: Five ideas for new councillors appeared first on Conservative...

Progress looks to post-Starmer phase as battle lines drawn with Burnham

Members from Labour’s centrist tradition came to the Progress conference in search of solutions, after a week of… The post Progress looks to post-Starmer phase as battle lines draw...

The Neet crisis is not being helped by Labour policies

Britain spends vastly more supporting young people onto benefits than helping them into work – and the problem is being failed by Labour policies. The post The Neet crisis is not b...

Lord Ashcroft: “Labour were always for the working people. Now it’s the non-working people”: my latest focus groups

My last round of focus groups before the May elections took place in Leeds, where we heard from former Tories who had switched to Labour or Reform, and longer-standing Labour voter...

David Page: Labour’s centralist planning policies are flawed

Labour’s push for 1.5 million homes risks concentrating power at the centre while failing to solve the real constraint on housing delivery. The post David Page: Labour’s centralist...

New conservative, old Labour?

He might resist the framing, but when you strip away the labels and simply ask what the correct answers are to policy issues, you end up with a programme that looks – on most of th...

Patrick English: YouGov data shows Reform holding back Conservative recovery in London

Frustrating news for the Conservatives, our model does not currently project the party to be winning back control of either Westminster or Wandsworth. These are, naturally, the top...

Britain’s desperate need for Keir Badenoch

The country requires centre-left foreign policy and centre-right reform at home

Reform UK undercuts Labour and Tories for its first ‘Business Day’

Populist party promises panel discussions with ‘leading voices from across the economy’ to tempt wary chief executives

Era Sakhuja: Why the British centre-right must champion a new European partnership

It is time that the conservative movement showed its adaptability once again by understanding that Global Britain and European Britain are not mutually exclusive but rather complem...

Simon Minas-Bound: Welfare reform can’t come from the centre

Labour believes problems are best solved by pulling levers in Whitehall. Conservatives should recognise that lasting change is built through strong local and regional leadership, w...

Think tank supports cuts, union fears loss of crucial services

The New Zealand Initiative's Oliver Hartwich. Photo: Supplied The New Zealand Initiative is pleased with the government's plan to slash nearly 9000 public sector roles over...

Focus on jobs, not benefits, to cut welfare bill, says thinktank

Hitting government’s target of getting 80% of workers into jobs would reduce cost of universal credit by £10bnTackling the root causes of joblessness, instead of cutting benefits,...

Tony Blair think tank criticised for ‘ill-informed’ report on disability benefits

Lord Ashcroft: My latest polling – The crucial “Centrists” who reject both Reform and the Greens

A general election is still years away but if the landscape then resembles the current state of play, one key question will be which putative governing coalition is least chaotic –...

CBI and Browne Jacobson Set Out Blueprint for New National PPP Framework

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and UK and Ireland law firm Browne Jacobson have published a landmark joint report calling for a fundamental reform of the legal and com...

David Gauke: If you’re looking for radical economic reform from Reform, think again

For all the hope of bringing renewed dynamism to the British economy, Reform UK will not have assembled a pro-growth electoral coalition. The country may well need a brave and radi...

To be or not to be a minister and an MP

Reform initiatives, especially when they touch on institutions, are viewed positively by the political center, argues Zaharias Zoupis, head of research at Opinion Poll.