Sentences with phrase «by thinktank»

Bringing Rights Back Home, with foreword by Lord Hoffmann — Policy Exchange: A report by political scientist Michael Pinto - Duschinsky, commissioned by the thinktank Policy Exchange, offers a strong academic criticism of the European Court of Human Rights» current composition and powers, as well as the affects its judgments are having in Britain.

New study by thinktank funded by Koch brothers aims to debunk authoritative UN climate change report

According to an interim report by thinktank LKMCo, the fear of being labelled as a failure is making children feel physically sick before sitting a test.

Figures revealed today by thinktank Demos show that Wales is among the regions most likely to lose out from Brexit and possible tariffs on British exports.

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Her call came in a collection of essays about the state of the economy compiled by thinktank ResPublica.

That's because Robin Niblett doesn't suffer from the usual pangs felt by thinktank bosses.

A poll by the thinktank British Future finds strong public support for a change in the UK's relationship with the EU.

John Kampfner launches Lost labours, published by the thinktank CentreForum, with Nick Clegg today

The inclusion of Tory frontbenchers on the thinktank's new board follows the establishment of a progressive Conservatism project by the thinktank.

Conservative plans to introduce a marriage tax break have been challenged by a thinktank report arguing marriage is not decisive in making relationships more stable.

The report - Oil: The Coming Supply Crunch - was conceived by thinktank Chatham House, and argues world supplies of oil will be severely restricted within five to ten years.

Not exact matches

The report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a right - wing thinktank, agrees with the principles behind the work and pensions secretary's plans, but insists the reforms do not go far enough.

The government's blue - skies thinktank Foresight has warned that if no action is taken 60 per cent of men, 50 per cent of women and 25 per cent of children will be obese by 2050.

Osborne's boasts that impressive progress has been made ahead of the review were played down by Tony Dolphin, the chief economist of centre - left thinktank IPPR.

But thinktank Civitas called on ministers to lower high teenage conception rates by focusing on education and the fundamental link between sex and reproduction.

Andy Sawford of the Local Government Information Unit thinktank said the number of additional councils being gained by Labour was significant.

The prospects for ethnic minority politicians are still held back by «dinosaur attitudes» to race among party activists, a thinktank has argued.

Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.

According to the Guardian, «the essays, brought together by the IPPR thinktank, also point out that Labour first devised the idea of a points - based system for economic migrants in 2000, but took until 2008 to bring it into being».

The pamphlet, by the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society and Policy Network thinktank, admits Labour has lost ground among the DE bottom social group but says it will only restore its electoral fortunes if it performs better among white - collar and skilled workers, who are strongly represented in marginal seats in the South and Midlands.

One day Astle might, perhaps, be tempted by a job inside government, but for the last five years he has found his forte lies in leading a thinktank.

In August, the Social Market Foundation thinktank argued the government must consider building on the greenbelt if it is to meet targets for 3 million new homes by 2020.

The localism thinktank highlighted a funding gap brought about by public spending cuts and the savings councils are currently making through shared services.

The Tories» pledge against new top - down reorganisations of the NHS has been undermined by the coalition's NHS reforms, a health thinktank has said.

At a packed rally hosted by the Progress thinktank, Ms Blears also renewed her implicit criticism of Gordon Brown originally made to the Independent on Sunday, in which she said the prime minister needed to demonstrate more «emotional intelligence».

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

The government's new tax and spending watchdog needs urgent reform to establish its independence from George Osborne's Treasury, according to a report today by one of Britain's leading thinktanks.

The original aim of universal credit (UC)-- to encourage people to work more hours by letting them keep more of their low wage top - ups as their income rises — has been watered down so much that it risks failing to achieve its original purpose, according to the Resolution thinktank.

Farron's move in a letter to a constituent released at the weekend came as the IPPR thinktank published new research showing the proposed decarbonisation target need not increase energy prices, and the government's alternative of relying on gas will boost bills by as much as # 15.

The independent review, to be led by the intelligence and military thinktank the Royal United Services Institute, will look at the proportionality of the data gathered for surveillance purposes and the legal framework in which this happens.

«A lot of ordinary people are losing their jobs, losing their houses and have a lower standard of living because of the irresponsible giddy acts of bankers,» he told a fringe event hosted by the centre - right thinktank Policy Exchange.

«The world of the 21st century is one in which the British are going to have some clout and are going to have some idea of how to give themselves a platform to exercise that clout,» he told a fringe event organised by the ResPublica thinktank.

I wait to hear Gove face questions on the hefty # 500,000 dollop of public money he just ladled on to the plate of the New Schools Network, a six - person thinktank run by one former special adviser to Gove and «helped out» by another.

Labour defended itself today from claims by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that it had not set out plans to cut the deficit, saying the thinktank's call for a deficit reduction programme stretching to 2016 - 17 was unrealistic.

It has been founded by David Skelton, a former deputy director of the thinktank Policy Exchange.

Philippa Stroud, who is likely to win the Sutton and Cheam seat on Thursday and is head of the Centre for Social Justice, the thinktank set up by the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, has heavily influenced David Cameron's beliefs on subjects such as the family.

The Resolution Foundation thinktank welcomed the concession from the Treasury but warned that it would still be more than outweighed by the losses from the lower work allowance.

A study released today by the Resolution Foundation thinktank suggests a deal could be achieved, but only with difficulty.

The number of agency workers is set to reach 1 million by 2020, according to the Resolution Foundation thinktank, and 1.66 million people are now employed on a temporary basis.

The CSJ Awards are an annual event organised by the Centre for Social Justice, a centre right British political thinktank, where grants are awarded to organisations working in the field of poverty relief.

Sobków cited research in a report by the Open Europe thinktank, which has called for in - work benefits for migrants to be curbed for two to three years.

The thinktank estimates that universal credit cuts will leave 1m working households an average of # 2,800 a year worse off by 2022.

A thinktank headed by a former adviser to the education secretary, Michael Gove, has been awarded # 500,000 in public money by his department.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Muslim populations around the world - and their size in 2030 - have been calculated by a respected US thinktank.

But Jonathan Simons, head of the education at the right - leaning thinktank Policy Exchange, said drastic falls in Ofsted grades are usually caused by major events such as a change in pupil cohorts, heads leaving, an exodus of teachers or a financial crisis.

Idso is president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a thinktank which has been funded by ExxonMobil.

Mark Campanale of the thinktank Carbon Tracker Initiative said the actual financial losses from unchecked global warming could be higher than estimated by the financial model behind the new study.

Though other prominent scientists, such as Nasa's James Hansen and more recently Texas Tech University's Katharine Hayhoe, have also been targetted by contrarian bloggers and thinktanks demanding their institutions turn over their email record, it's Mann who's been the favourite target.