Poverty Trapped: Why Is Poverty Still With Us, After 70 Years Of The Welfare State?
This paper argues Britain has failed to abolish poverty because we’ve been looking at it the wrong way. It offers new ways of looking at and fixing poverty so people can have…
Power To The People: Stronger Consumer Choice And Competition So Markets Work For People, Not The Other Way Round
This paper explores how policy could be refreshed to deliver stronger consumer choice and competition, so markets for for people, not the other way around.
This report argues that the UK must create a Sovereign Wealth Fund to drive long-term investment, growth in new industries, and meet the challenges facing future generations.
A Shining City Upon A Hill: Rebooting Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few
Britain’s economy isn’t working properly anymore. In the wake of the 2008 banking crash, and in the face of new digital challenges and disruptive technologies, it simply isn’t delivering the goods. In…
Here you will find a selection of older papers by John Penrose MP. Although they’ve been achieved, we don’t think the ideas inside are any less important, they’ve simply been built upon…
John joins Iain Dale’s panel along with Pete Wishart (SNP MP), Rachael Maskell (Labour MP), and Olivia Utley (Telegraph Journalist) to answer listener questions on the biggest stories of the week.
It comes as part of a wider UK scheme aimed at improving walking and cycling projects outside London Weston-super-Mare has been handed £310,000 towards two local projects aimed at making the town centre safer and reducing car use by improving walking and cycling routes. The first project is aimed at…
This article was written by David Williamson and originally published in the Daily Express. A REVOLUTION in how the Government spends its money is being planned so small businesses across Britain will have a real chance of winning a slice of £300billion in public procurement cash. Ministers want to use…
This article was written by Adam John and originally published on Utility Week. The latest act in the tragedy that is the energy crisis has seen Ofgem push forward with plans to implement a quarterly price cap as part of its response to soaring wholesale costs. This minded-to position would make it…
“As I argue in Poverty Trapped bias can ruin life chances if it stops the best candidates from being hired or promoted on merit at work. It doesn’t matter if the bias is accidental or deliberate; employers lose the top talent either way, and the best candidates miss opportunities unfairly too. But many…
There were moments over the last few years when we all felt as though we’d never get ‘back to normal’. Every time we took a step forward, Covid would send us two steps back. But now, at last, it finally feels like we’re getting there… This really hit me when…