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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Record-breaking levels of migration since 2020 have added more than £15,000 to the price of the average English home. ‘The UK’s Housing Crisis is Getting Worse’ by CPS Head of Housing and ...

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 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 ...

Record migration numbers since 2020 have added around £15,270 to the average English house price – according to research ...

Briefing author Karl Williams, Deputy Research Director at the Centre for Policy Studies, said: ‘These figures highlight the historic rise in net migration and the failure of successive governments in ...