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Friday, 09 September 2016 00:00
Bright Blue response to Theresa May’s education speech
Bright Blue, the independent think tank for liberal conservatism and conservative modernisers, responds to three elements of Theresa May’s education speech: grammar schools, the role of universities and private schools. Commenting on Grammar schools, Director of Bright Blue, Ryan Shorthouse said: The Government is wasting precious political capital on re-introducing grammar schools. The evidence shows that the best way to…
Thursday, 01 September 2016 08:48
Bright Blue comments on the Environmental Audit Committee's report on Sustainability in the Department for Transport
Commenting on the EAC report, Sam Hall, researcher at Bright Blue, said: "Today's report shows that the Government needs new policies to accelerate the UK towards a low-carbon transport system. "The UK is the leading manufacturer of electric vehicles in Europe. We should be incentivising the transition to low emission vehicles by enabling more city councils to set up low…
Wednesday, 31 August 2016 14:33
Introduce new ‘Help to Improve’ loans and ISAs to incentivise home energy improvements
Bright Blue, the independent think tank for liberal conservatism and conservative modernisers, has today published a report urging the government to support a new home energy improvement scheme following the end of the unsuccessful Green Deal in 2015. The think tank shows how and why the Green Deal was a failure, and proposes new policies to incentivise people to install…
Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:45
Bright Blue calls for Government to abandon net migration target
Bright Blue, the independent think tank for liberal conservatism and conservative modernisers, calls on the Government to abandon the net migration target, whilst controlling and reducing migration. Bright Blue proposes that migrants should pay a new class of National Insurance for two years which would provide extra funding to help local communities struggling with substantial levels of immigration. Commenting on…
Friday, 29 July 2016 11:11
The Government should abandon Hinkley C and find a 'new plan A'
In light of the Government's decision to announce a further review of funding for the £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power station, Ben Caldecott, Associate Fellow at Bright Blue, said: "The Government should abandon Hinkley C - pursuing it in light of all the evidence of cost reductions in other technologies would be deeply irresponsible. We need a new ‘Plan A’.…
Wednesday, 20 July 2016 10:58
Government should abandon its net migration target
Bright Blue, the independent think tank for liberal conservatism, today calls on the new Home Secretary to control migration in alternative ways to the net migration target. Ryan Shorthouse, Director of Bright Blue, said: "The Government should control and reduce the level of migration into the UK. But the current net migration target should be abandoned, since it is arbitrary…
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