Commenting on Kemi Badenoch’s speech to Conservative Party conference, CPS Director Liam Halligan said: ‘The Conservative leader gave a barnstorming, policy-rich speech in Birmingham, closing a party ...

A combination of tax rises and minimum wage rises, in successive Budgets, has drastically increased the cost of employing low-wage workers Between 2024 and 2026, the cost of employing a full-time ...

Andy Burnham’s commitment to spending £39bn on new social housing will add to the taxpayer’s burden and may only deliver between 14,335 and 15,494 homes per year, according to new research published ...

Liam Halligan, CPS Director, said: ‘Half a century ago, a Labour Chancellor named Healey had to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout to rescue our economy. We are dangerously close to history ...

A new report from the Centre for Policy Studies highlights the true scale of Britain’s infrastructure cost crisis, with the country spending large sums for comparatively little return HS2 is the ...

A sluggish public sector and the closure of productive private sector industries are hampering growth and risking significant future tax hikes, according to a new report published by the Centre for ...

Michael Spencer is one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs. Educated at Worth Abbey and Corpus Christi, Oxford, where he read physics, Michael’s career in the City of London began in 1976, as an ...

Robert Colvile is Head of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Policy Studies, as well as a columnist for The Sunday Times. In September 2026 he stepped down as Director of the CPS ...

The Centre for Policy Studies has published a comprehensive breakdown of eight key factors driving up Britain’s infrastructure costs, alongside 40 recommendations of how to drive them back down.

The housing crisis is Britain’s defining domestic policy failure. And nowhere is it felt more acutely than in London. Which is why a new report published today by the Centre for Policy Studies and ...

In ‘A New Era for Retail Bonds’ Rishi Sunak MP calls for the Government to back the creation of a new exchange for SME bonds aimed at everyday savers. The report, which highlights the scale of the ...