Unfinished Revolution: The Penrose Competition Review 18 Months On
This is a follow-up to John’s original Report on how stronger consumer choice and competition could ensure that markets work for people, not the other way around. It assesses what progress has…
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…
Weston’s MP John Penrose is celebrating today’s announcement that Ministers have approved the town’s multi-million pound Levelling Up Fund bid for Government cash. In summer last year, John supported North Somerset’s Levelling-Up Fund bid to turn Weston into a year-round destination by upgrading underused and vulnerable local heritage sites into “must…
This article was published in The Spectator. Welfare reform is back in Westminster, with both Labour and the Tories now seeking solutions to deal with the 5.2 million on out-of-work benefits – a figure which The Spectator was first to pick up on. The Times today splashed on possible government proposals with Labour’s Jon Ashworth now accusing…
This article was written by Nick Gutteridge, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, and Christopher Hope, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, and originally published by The Telegraph. Rishi Sunak has dropped plans to rein in Whitehall bureaucracy by setting Government departments “red tape budgets’’. Ministers would have been handed binding annual targets limiting the total regulatory cost…
This article was written by Nick Gutteridge, Political Correspondent and originally published in The Sunday Telegraph. RISHI SUNAK should ditch protectionist EU trademark rules to unlock a Brexit boon of cheaper clothes, toiletries and cars, senior Tories have said. Conservative MPs want the Prime Minister to scrap decades-old Brussels regulations…