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 ...

Liam Halligan, CPS Director, said: ‘Half a century ago, a Labour Chancellor named Healey had to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout to rescue our economy. We are dangerously close to history ...

Labour politicians have repeatedly raised the prospect of Britain moving closer to the EU, either through a reset in relations that sees the UK becoming more of a rule-taker or by rejoining either the ...

Britain has built a parallel justice system that operates less as an escape valve for the courts and more as an industrialised grievance machine, a new Centre for Policy Studies paper argues.

Responding to Reform UK’s announcement on retaining the pension triple lock, CPS Head of Economic & Fiscal Policy, Daniel Herring said: ‘Reform’s commitment to the triple lock is disappointing for a ...

The Centre for Policy Studies has today announced that its Director, Robert Colvile, will be stepping down in the coming months. Robert joined the Centre for Policy Studies team in September 2016 as ...

A sluggish public sector and the closure of productive private sector industries are hampering growth and risking significant future tax hikes, according to a new report published by the Centre for ...

Despite the Government pledging to make housebuilding a priority, there is little sign Labour can deliver on their housing ambitions, according to new analysis from the Centre for Policy Studies. 2025 ...

‘Who Wins Under Labour?’ shows how fiscal drag – where frozen tax thresholds pull more workers into higher tax bands as wages rise – will quietly erode living standards for millions of middle earners ...

The costs of employing young people entering the workforce have skyrocketed since Labour came to power, according to new analysis by the Centre for Policy Studies. The research builds on earlier CPS ...

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 ...