Media Coverage

Demolish the old high street to rebuild the new

Caroline Elsom writes for the Daily Telegraph on the impact of coronavirus on the high street.

Global Britain urged to open doors for developing world

James Sproule calls on Mr Johnson to allow a new generation of start-ups to operate within UK company law from Commonwealth countries

Boris must accept that the people do not want to bail out inner-city London

Voters will not respond well to a city-centric vision for national recovery says Jethro Elsden in the Sunday Telegraph

Cut National Insurance and VAT to get the economy back on its feet, says former chancellor Sajid Javid

Cut National Insurance and VAT to get the economy back on its feet, says former chancellor Sajid Javid

Will hydrogen fuel the UK's net-zero coronavirus comeback?

Will hydrogen fuel the UK's net-zero coronavirus comeback?

The business bailout scheme should avoid moral hazard and protect taxpayers

Our Head of Business, Nick King, writes in Conservative Home about the recently announced Project Birch, urging the Government to do everything possible to avoid moral hazard, protect taxpayers and ensure it’s not throwing good money after bad.

Let hydrogen fuel our vehicles to a greener future

Business Researcher, Eamonn Ives, writes for City AM about the need to decarbonise the transport sector, and the role of hydrogen to do so.

We calculate the astronomical cost of the virus as double the sum spent each year on healthcare

Senior Researcher Caroline Elsom writes for Conservative Home about the cost of the coronavirus

Coronavirus: UK government borrowing could top £300bn, says think tank

City Am reports on new CPS research into the cost of the coronavirus crisis on the public purse.

Deficit could hit £300bn this year - report

Borrowing could hit £300 billion this year as the Government races to keep the economy alive during the coronavirus crisis, according to a new report.

The virus has exposed the urgent need to reform how we treat the self-employed

Senior Researcher, James Heywood, writes for ConservativeHome about how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a need to reform how we treat the self-employed.

Getting through the Covid-19 pandemic will require markets as well as strong government

Covid-19 is a major shock to our system.

Our economy is being sacrificed because the NHS was unprepared for a pandemic

Yet the NHS is central to the coronavirus crisis in another way, too.

Carbon offshoring poses competition risk for UK firms

The paper from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think-tank argues that although the UK has made significant progress in areas such as reducing coal-fired power generation, imports of carbon-intensive goods and raw materials from abroad have increased.

UK coal-free fortnight claim ‘misleading’

Tony Lodge's new paper for the CPS, The Great Carbon Swindle, calls for the introduction of a carbon border tax