📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social publishes a major new report on reducing victims and abuses of modern slavery in the UK asylum system, proposing 8 new policies. 📘 Read it here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u... 🗞️ Read about it in The Guardian: theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bright Blue is hiring for a Communications Manager. Deadline: 1st December 2025 Position can be full-time or part-time. Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig... @brightblueuk.bsky.social

My letter in The Spectator today @thespectator1828.bsky.social www.spectator.co.uk/article/lett...

My letter in @thetimes.com today www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

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.

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

✍️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

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

📢 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 👇

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...

⚖️ @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

🔥 LAST WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social launched our new online magazine @centrewrite.bsky.social Check it out & subscribe to our weekly email here centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk Centre Write will be a home for centrist, liberal & conservative readers searching for thoughtful writing & radical ideas

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...

📢 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...

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

IfG at the Conservative Party Conference | What is the Conservative route to fiscal sustainability? Join us in Manchester! With: Richard Fuller MP, @tompope.bsky.social @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social @trinhtu.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-co...

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...

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

📣 Government adopts @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @thefabians.bsky.social recommendation for a new Pensions Commission Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/pensions-com... 📘 Read our original report here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Delighted to speak today with Head of Policy at 10 Downing Street about radical @brightblueuk.bsky.social ideas to help a moderate Labour Government: 📈 Increase prosperity 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Support families 💷 Make tax system simpler & fairer 🏠 Democraticise asset ownership 🛂 Manage immigration 🌳 Green our economy

📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social launch a mega-report on future of European centre-right - to beat the statist left & populist right 🔵 5 countries studies 🔵 3 key principles identified 🔵 10 new priorities proposed 📚 Read: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/ri...

📣 THIS WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social & the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung publish a mega-report on the future of European centre-right Proposes 10 new distinctive priorities - w/ supporting policies - for the centre-right to beat populist right & statist left Sign up: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...

We were delighted to host the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Stephen Timms MP, for a speech on ‘Expanding economic activity.’ 📖 Read the speech here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stephen-timm... 📺 Watch the speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

📢Join Bright Blue and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for a public panel event launching our brand new report: 'The future of the European centre-right: evolving past the challenges' ⏰Tuesday 17th June 2025 11:30 am -14:00 pm⏰ 🙋‍♀️Full event details and RSVP here: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...

My recent article for the Yorkshire Post. Ideas to build on what was announced in the Government's latest Immigration White Paper. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion... This is an extract from a recent @brightblueuk.bsky.social book on immigration: www.brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

We were delighted to partner with @financialfairness.bsky.social last week on a major conference to discuss one of the most urgent challenges of the 2020s: how to raise living standards Shadow Chief Secretary to Treasury delivered a thoughtful speech. Read here www.brightblue.org.uk/richard-full...

OUT NOW @brightblueuk.bsky.social's report on immigration "Mainstream parties need honest and deliverable policy prospectus to reduce immigration" 🔵 10 essays 🔵 Over 40 policy ideas Covered in Sunday Express, The Telegraph, Times Higher Education & Politico www.brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

📢 Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social & @financialfairness.bsky.social for our conference next week on raising living standards We’re exploring supply-side reforms, taxation & employers in boosting incomes 🎤 Speech: Shadow Chief Secretary to HM Treasury Sign up: www.brightblue.org.uk/raising-the-...

Delighted to host the @brightblueuk.bsky.social Spring Reception last week. I said: "The liberal centre-right - as opposed to the authoritarian right and statist left - will have our time again soon, to fix the big problems and build a more prosperous, green and abundant country."

The tariff methodology is brain-scramblingly bad - on.ft.com/42lgic3 via @financialtimes.com

📢 This month's @brightblueuk.bsky.social bulletin: #Adolescence, social media & the chronically online + Our Spring Reception + Our work on living standards + We're hiring + Our policy wins Read more here: mailchi.mp/brightblue/b...

🌍 Our Exec-Chair @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social quoted in @theguardian.com on Kemi Badenoch’s energy plans: “There will be unsustainable costs to both our environment and economy if we do not achieve net zero emissions by the middle of this century...” 🔗 Read more: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨Join us for a keynote speech by The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Social Security and Disability, on ‘Expanding economic activity' ⏰Thursday 1st May 2025 📍H/Advisors Maitland, 3 Pancras Square, London 📩Please RSVP directly to [email protected]

🍺Join us for our next drink tank with @kimleadbeater 🗓️Tuesday 29th April 2025, 7pm-8pm 📍The Spying Room, The Morpeth Arms 📲https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drink-tank-with-kim-leadbeater-mp-tickets-1249292570709?aff=oddtdtcreator

📣 Bright Blue's response to the new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) green paper launched today: "Labour Government makes a strong start in reforming welfare" + 3 @brightblueuk.bsky.social policy wins 📘 Read our full response here: www.brightblue.org.uk/welfare-poli...

My letter today to The Telegraph Advice to the DWP from @brightblueuk.bsky.social on bringing down the benefits bill www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...

📣 @brightblueuk.bsky.social is hiring! We're looking for a new Communications Manager Deadline: 30 March 2025 Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...

Yes, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social should press ahead with a Youth Mobility Scheme with the EU, as I wrote about in The Times last year. Especially if it’s critical to getting more frictionless trade with our biggest market. www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

In the @brightblueuk.bsky.social bulletin this month, I discuss fighting for Britain's global reputation as a prestigious and prosperous country. Bulletin also includes: 🔵 New articles from team 🔵 New Events & Ops officer 🔵 Upcoming events Read it here: mailchi.mp/brightblue.o...

🗞️ Out now: the February edition of The Circus, Bright Blue's monthly bulletin, including: 🔵 Introduction from @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social 🔵 Updates about our ongoing work 🔵 Information on all our upcoming events Read it here 👇 mailchi.mp/brightblue.o...

📣 Today's our national day of action on #SafeSickPay! 📣 We're united with workers, health groups, charities and businesses across the UK urgently calling on the Government to raise Statutory #SickPay. ❗ We've only a few weeks until MPs debate Sick Pay. Write to them here: https://buff.ly/4hJQMTS

🎙️ Bright Blue Executive Chair @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social is the latest guest on the Intelligence Forums Podcast with Harry Corbett 🎧 Listen here 👇 www.intelligence-forums.com/podcasts

🌍 Our Executive Chair @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social co-authors a new article with Rachel Lindley from @fivetalents.bsky.social "If the UK really wants to help combat global poverty, it needs to devolve aid" Read it here👇 conservativehome.com/2025/01/27/r...

🍻Join us for our drink tank next Tuesday with @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday 14th January 7pm-8pm 📍 The Morpeth Arms, SW1P 4RW 👇 RSVP and full details here: www.brightblue.org.uk/drink-tank-k...

This week, Bright Blue launched its Strategic Plan for 2025 to 2027. It is the result of extensive reflection and consultation this year. 📘 Read our new Strategy Plan in full here: www.brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🚨 This week Bright Blue launched its new Strategic Plan for the next 3 years. Includes the appointment of new high-profile, cross-party Advisory Council members and Associate Fellows. Read our full Strategic Plan here: www.brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Cross-party agreement that our social security system should never allow people to go without essentials, and Govts should take independent expert advice on payment levels to get this right. Thoughtful piece from @andrewharrop.bsky.social & @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social