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How To Save The Water Industry
Dry taps and bottled water for customers of South East Water in Tunbridge Wells, Thames Water going bankrupt in slow motion, spiralling bills across the rest of the country and to cap it all, fat cat pay and bonuses for…
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Minister ‘Gets It’ with a good start on Housing
Government Ministers announced a welcome & positive step towards a ‘Build Up Not Out’ housing policy. Perhaps they’d been reading our proposals in Poverty Trapped……?
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John’s interview for the Popular Conservatives podcast
The Popular Conservatives are a new & fast-growing part of UK centre-right politics who, like us at the Centre for Small-State Conservatives, favour a smaller & more efficient state. So when they invited John to appear on their ‘PopConversation’ podcast,…
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Why Britain Needs A Taxpayer Protection Act
Most UK families, business leaders and investors will spend the next month trying to ignore the ever-darkening economic clouds that are gathering in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ autumn Budget. Her problems have been mounting for months. First her…
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‘Smart data’ will boost UK growth, but Britain has to move faster
John gave the Keynote Speech at the London 2025 Smart Data Show, saying the UK has a world-leading position in growth-boosting Smart Data supply-side economic reforms, but that we need to move faster if we’re going to stay ahead of…
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Britain Needs A ‘Top 5 In 5’ Industrial Strategy, Not Bets On New Tech
This article is the first in a fortnightly series of policy proposals from John Penrose and the Centre for Small State Conservatives. Nobel-Prize-Winning economist Paul Krugman famously said “productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything.” His words should send…
