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Why not give the Falklands a seat in the UK Parliament?
Such an offer would guarantee stability for any Overseas Territory, allowing them to cement their permanent status within the UKSuch an offer would guarantee stability for any Overseas Territory, allowing them to cement their permanent status within the UK. To…
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Cutting red tape for train firms will help decarbonise our railways
Great herds of world leaders, climate change activists and media crews are all converging on Glasgow at the COP26 climate summit, like one of nature’s great animal migrations, to try to save the planet. There will be lofty speeches, lots…
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John Penrose and Stephen Kinnock discuss how the UK can allow the manufacturing sector to grow
John Penrose MP and Stephen Kinnock MP, board members of the Institute for Prosperity, are interviewed on the Ian King Live programme on Sky News. This interviewed first aired on the 16th of November 2020.
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Is the traditional Tory belief in free enterprise leaving the station?
As flesh is put on the bones of the recent Plan for Rail, it will send a clear signal about whether the Conservatives are still the party of free enterprise. Rail passengers need choice and an entrepreneurial spirit, not a…
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What is the difference in price between Google and other search engines?
Using most search engines isn’t free, it’s a transaction that requires something from you (usually information). John talks with Radio 4 about the need to know more about what we are getting and what it is costing us in the…
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Are Britains regulators up to the task?
In a brief interview, John summaries his policy paper, We Deserve Better, explaining how small changes in the way utility industries are regulated would result in a much better deal for consumers.
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‘Invite the Overseas Territories to join the UK post-Brexit’ says Penrose
This article was written by Sebastian Whale for The House magazine The Tories are in a commanding position to address the many outstanding issues that have accumulated over the past few years. From boundary reforms to a bold offer to…
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We need to pour a big dose of drain unblocker down the constitutional plumbing
Constitutions ought to be straightforward things. Bits of political plumbing to make sure democracies work properly, so power can transfer smoothly from a dying Government to a new one without a punch-up. But that’s not what ours is doing. The…
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How to end the injustice of the skewed university degree system
Imagine a world where Eton awarded its own A-levels. No one else could take them and, if you got an A grade in, for example, chemistry, it was worth more than an A grade in the same subject from any…
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Why railways should be more like airlines – and how passengers would gain if they were
There’s just the faintest whiff of new thinking in our railways. A breath of cool air on a passenger’s cheek that might, just possibly, herald a wind of change. And it’s coming, improbably, from the next-door sector of airlines. The…