🚨 NEW 🚨 Net migration hits 2 million over this parliament

Karl Williams, CPS Research Director, responds 👇

Read the full analysis on the CPS website

🚨 NEW 🚨 Net migration hits 2 million over this parliament

Karl Williams, CPS Research Director, responds 👇

Read the full analysis on the CPS website

So far this parliament (Jan 2020 - Dec 2023), we now know that net migration has added at least 2 million people to the population of the UK. This equates to population growth of 3% in four years, and double the annual rate of immigration-driven population growth in the 2010s...

'It's not about more or less, but better. More regulation doesn't lead to cleaner rivers, better regulation does' - Dominic Johnson CBE tells a Centre for Policy Studies regulation event

🚗 Should drivers pay road tax per mile?

Dillon Smith, drawing on his CPS paper 'The Future of Driving', says YES in this debate for The Times.

Let us know what you think?

thetimes.co.uk/article/should…

NEW REPORT | Regulating for Growth 📈

British tech firms are being held back by outdated approaches to regulation and heavy-handed red tape

Read more 👇
cps.org.uk/research/regul…

Top-down programmes rarely tackle the root cause of violent crime

Tanika D'Souza, CPS Researcher, writes for CapX

capx.co/well-never-red…

Rent controls are not the answer, have never been the answer, and will never be the answer.

#PoliticsLive you were a joy, as always 😊

🤔 Why do politicians put up with insults from pensioners? asks CapX's Joseph Dinnage

cityam.com/why-do-politic…

There is currently limited room for manoeuvre in our public finances

Gerard Lyons | CapX

capx.co/are-public-inq…

We should take alarmist growth predictions with a pinch of salt says CPS' Karl Williams. The OECD has consistently underestimated the UK's GDP growth

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capx.co/the-oecd-needs…

Build more house ✅
But where are they going to be built❓

Emma Revell weighing up Labour's new housing plan on #PoliticsLive

Interesting point from Karl Williams of Centre for Policy Studies - the OECD has consistently underestimated Britain's economy. (This is 2012-23, missing out the pandemic...) capx.co/the-oecd-needs…

For the 50th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies and the tenth of CapX, we've been republishing pieces from our archive.

This week, it's Gertrude Himmelfarb's repudiation of leftist historiography 'Victorian Values and Twentieth Century Condescension'👇

capx.co/victorian-valu…

💥 Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee, Prof. Brian Bell echoes our call to abolish the Shortage Occupation List at the Home Affairs Select Committee today

Read our full report here 👇 cps.org.uk/research/takin…

CPS Research Director, Karl Williams responds to the Migration Advisory Committee's 'U-turn' on the Graduate route

Full response 👇
cps.org.uk/media/post/202…

Read more about Neil and Robert Jenrick's recommendations for the future of the visa system - including the Graduate route - in their CPS paper 'Taking Back Control' cps.org.uk/research/takin…

First speech as a minister from Esther McVey to Centre for Policy Studies on ‘the common sense fightback’ - starting the week with a bang…

Today from 10am
I’ll be at the CPS delivering my Common Sense Fightback speech
which will be live streamed here 👇🏼

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Esther McVey off to bullish start as she defends her “minister for common sense” role

“Aristotle thought common sense helped us form coherent thoughts and make rational decisions. It's as important a sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.”