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My letter in @thetimes.com today

www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

Very interesting publication from think tanks & experts across the political spectrum, on tax reforms that can drive growth. centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-... Includes @jrf-uk.bsky.social @ippr.org @brightblueuk.bsky.social @cps.org.uk @neweconomics.bsky.social @danneidle.bsky.social CenTax & others

Delighted I & @brightblueuk.bsky.social have co-authored this new paper on tax reform

Impressive to have such cross-party consensus from think tanks.

Well done to @centaxuk.bsky.social for co-ordinating.

Abolishing Stamp Duty is no silver bullet | Ryan Shorthouse | The Critic Magazine Though there may be some positive spillover effects from the tax cuts the Conservative Opposition are now promising, all of them, especially abolishing Stamp Duty…

My article for The Critic

⚪️ Some spurious arguments for abolishing Stamp Duty, especially that it is preventing downsizing
⚪️ There are better tax property regimes - such as an annual proportional property tax - but politically and technically challenging to deliver

thecritic.co.uk/abolishing-s...

My latest article on the situation in Israel and Gaza for The Circus, the bulletin of @brightblueuk.bsky.social

✔️ Also, 6 recent policy wins with the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Government

📚 Read The Circus here: mailchi.mp/44eff4615b57...

Reflecting on the future of the centre-right.

Thank you to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for hosting such energising and educational seminars in beautiful Lake Como.

Delighted to launch a new online daily magazine:
@centrewrite.bsky.social

Find thoughtful contributions from authors every day, starting with Mel Stride's interview, here: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-wi...

Subscribe to weekly roundups on our homepage: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk

The anti-social menace will be our undoing The train stank of weed, and several people were playing music out loud on their phones. There were too many for me to stomp up and down the carriage asking the offenders in my usual diplomatic way to...

✍️Today's article from Centre Write:
@bijanomrani.bsky.social explains why ‘The anti-social menace will be our undoing’.

Read here👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/the-anti-soc...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social

Moldova’s PAS shows Russians can be beat For a party that once prided itself on knowing every doorstep in Britain, the Conservatives have somehow lost the knack of knocking on them. Bizarrely, it was Moldova that reminded the centre-right…

Today, Alex Gunter writes about what @conservatives.bsky.social can learn from Moldova's Party of Action and Solidarity.

Read the article on Centre Write👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/moldovas-pas...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk

🗣️ "We need open registers of beneficial ownership, transparency, and letting sunlight be the best disinfectant."

👏 Our Vice-Chair the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell MP spoke on a great @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and @brightblueuk.bsky.social panel at @conservatives.bsky.social Conference today.

ECHR exit would lose Tories votes If there’s one thing in politics worth remembering, it is not to get caught in an argument that unites your opponents and splits your friends. The announcement on the European Convention on Human…

⚖️ @mrjcrouch.bsky.social argues that the Conservative Party would lose votes by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

📖Read the full article on Centre Write: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/leaving-the-...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social

#Tories #politics #ECHR

Co-authors of the paper included our Chief Economist @chrisbelfield.bsky.social alongside @cps.org.uk @adamsmith.org @ippr.org @neweconomics.bsky.social @brightblueuk.bsky.social @labourtogether.bsky.social and @danneidle.bsky.social

YouTube video by Bright Blue Ludgate Lecture with John Curtice: How polling has changed politics

Join us today for our online #LudgateLecture where University of Strathclyde's Professor of Practice, Sir John Curtice, discusses what polls tell us about whether Britain's two-party system can survive.

📅Thursday 30th October
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhe...

📰 The collection has been covered in @theipaper.com and @thespectator1828.bsky.social

Read about it here 👇

🔵 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🔵 www.spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...

🗣️ Joe Robertson MP commented:

🗣️ Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst commented:

🗣️ Rt Hon John Glen MP commented:

🗣️ Danny Kruger MP commented:

✏️ Foreword from Danny Kruger MP (Reform UK’s Head of Preparing for Government)

✍️ Essay contributors include: John Glen MP, Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP, Joe Robertson MP, David Goodhart, @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social and more.

📢 Today Bright Blue launches a new essay collection in partnership with @jrf-uk.bsky.social:

'Mending the net? A new centre-right approach to social security'

📖Read the full report here: brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...

🧵Follow this thread for more details 👇

Tory Reform defector Danny Kruger calls for two-child benefit cap to be scrapped Better parental leave and 'universal credit lottery' among other suggestions in centre-right book of essays

📢 OUT TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social release a book on a new centre-right approach to social security

Includes contributions from @conservatives.bsky.social and @reformuk.bsky.social politicians and thought leaders

🗞️ Covered in @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Cutting Britain's giant welfare bill would be an act of kindness The rate of poverty across the population has been pretty static over the past few decades, but child poverty has risen in recent years.

My article in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today

spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...

This is an extract from a new book by @brightblueuk.bsky.social out today.

📘 Read the book here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

CONSERVATIVES: UKACC x @brightblueuk.bsky.social: Brave New World? Fighting Corruption and Kleptocrats in an age of Trump.

Featuring Diane Banks, Sir Andrew Mitchell MP, @danieljbruce.bsky.social, and John Penrose.

A really interesting discussion with @brightblueuk.bsky.social and the Energy Ombudsman at #LDConf. There’s so more to do if we want to protect consumers in the ever-changing energy market and help them to adopt new low-carbon tech. Thanks to all who came and to Vince Cable for his insights.

TODAY Join us at 1pm for our second fringe of Lib Dem Party Conference 2025

Featuring @luketryl.bsky.social, @claireyoungmp.bsky.social and more

TODAY Join us at the @libdems.org.uk Party Conference 2025 at 11:30am

🗣️
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
@willforster.bsky.social
@carlcashman.bsky.social

📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel

🤝
@propertymark.bsky.social

Join us this Sunday at the Liberal Democrat Conference for our event.

🗣️ @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social, @willforster.bsky.social, @carlcashman.bsky.social, Eleanor Langford, Tom Darling, Timothy Douglas.
⏰ 11:30am - 12:30pm
📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel
🤝 @propertymark.bsky.social

Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social in Bournemouth at the upcoming 2025 @libdems.org.uk Party Conference

We're hosting 2 public fringe events outside the secure zone

Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/upcoming-eve...

💡 The new Home Secretary adopts Bright Blue recommendation to restrict visas from countries with poor asylum returns record.

Read a comment from Senior Research Fellow, William Prescott, about this here: www.brightblue.org.uk/visa-asylum-...

Great to be in No.10 again. We talked about @brightblueuk.bsky.social's ideas on justice & home affairs, specifically that will create:

🔴 A more selective, contributory-based skilled migration system
🔴 A drugs policy - for both legal & illegal drugs - that will reduce harms to individuals & society