Sentences with phrase «thinktank said»

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe / PA Ministers have been urged to bring forward their 2040 ban on new diesel and petrol car sales by a decade, a move which an environmental thinktank said would almost halve oil imports and largely close the gap in the UK's climate targets.

Public sector workers and citizens should be trained in conflict resolution techniques to combat antisocial behaviour, a thinktank said today.

In a post-budget analysis, the Resolution Foundation thinktank said the CGT cut was «focused on those on higher incomes — unsurprisingly because in general better - off households are the ones making capital gains in the first place».

The majority of immigrants to the UK from new EU member states have already returned home, a thinktank said on Wednesday.

The left - of - centre thinktank said Labour was on track to see its number of MPs fall below 200 as a result of its poor polling performance and losses in Scotland.

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

The National Institute for Economic and Social Research (Niesr) thinktank says returning to growth is about much larger headaches than simply solving the deficit.

Safeguards are required to protect the London 2012 Olympic legacy's regeneration promises, a thinktank says.

Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank says chancellor likely to reduce rates in next budget despite concerns about inequality

A thinktank says council leaders, not the London Assembly, are best equipped to deal with the next mayor of London - whoever that may be.

Respected thinktank says UK's withdrawal from EU will stoke inflation and peg back wages to below their 2008 level in 2021

Not exact matches

Mark Campanale, executive director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a thinktank that analyses the financial risks of fossil fuel investments, said: «The financial markets are fast losing faith in the investment case for fossil fuels.

OAS «will be one more handful of straw on the back of the camel that's going to be carrying a much, much heavier load, mainly because of health - care spending,» says William Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, a thinktank on the opposite end of the political spectrum from the CCPA.

Christian campaigners have reacted to a new thinktank report that says the government is «clueless» about the scale of human trafficking in the UK.

Loukas Tsoukalis, president of Eliamep — Greece's best known thinktank — says: «I presume that noone in the troika seriously believes that there will be full implementation of the [additional] $ 12 billion cuts rather than just a respectable amount [of implementation].»

«I'm not going to try and out - bid any other politician on toughness, saying «let's just bang them up for longer, let's have more isolation, and once they're out they're on their own,» he told an audience at the Centre for Social Justice thinktank.

Also speaking at the launch was Richard Barbrook from digital futures thinktank Cybersalon, who said that Corbyn's team contacted his organisation some weeks ago to ask them to help prepare the digital democracy manifesto.

Radical innovations from local authorities are needed in the face of a «tsunami of a public sector recession», a thinktank has said.

Jill Kirby, the thinktank's director, echoed Mr Morgan's sentiments, saying: «As public and media anxiety builds in anticipation of the comprehensive spending review, it's important to keep a sense of proportion.

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.

He says: «I'm confident that Demos will help us with these questions, alongside other leading thinktanks that we have always worked with.

Announcing his decision to join the thinktank, Osborne said: «I believe that political change is only meaningful if it involves not just a change of personnel, but a change of ideas too.

Matthew Rhodes, strategy director at the thinktank, said: «Restoring public trust on immigration has to be a priority for all the main parties ahead of the general election.

Neal Lawson, chair of the centre - left thinktank Compass, said: «A hypothecated tax for the NHS could do three things: provide essential extra funding, get round the loss of trust in politicians and provide confidence that the one national institution people still believe in has a future.»

«It is a dubious privilege, some people would say, to be working for a thinktank whose closest links are to the third party.»

«I don't think we're as long - term as some thinktanks; we haven't tried to be,» he says simply.

Speaking during a question - and - answer session at a thinktank in Brussels last month, he said: «Well let's just take one test — the exact same benefits.

«No 10 just hasn't been the engine room of government in the way it was under Blair and Brown,» says Akash Paun of the Institute for Government thinktank, which will be carefully monitoring the development of exactly this problem over the rest of 2013.

Taking questions after his speech to the Reform thinktank, Mr Fox said: «Those in politics on the other side of the world can huff and puff but it will not change our resolve politically to retain the independence and the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands nor to come to their defence and to maintain deterrence as best we can.

A thinktank has said high spending on benefits and public services has made Britain the «divided society» of Europe.

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».

David Cameron has lately been engaging fruitfully with external political thinktanks (including, I should say, Demos).

«The problem is not just that it [the House of Lords] is too big but that it will continue to grow,» said Lewis Baston, senior research fellow at the academic thinktank Democratic Audit.

Will Straw, the IPPR associate director, said the thinktank's analysis showed not only would energy prices be more expensive, they would be highly volatile.

In a keynote speech to Progress, the Blairite thinktank, the business secretary said the government recognised the need to «prioritise and economise» once Britain emerges from recession, but would do so while protecting frontline services.

McCluskey, dismissing Progress as an organisation whose ideas were locked in the past, said he was relaxed about defeating the thinktank in arguments and that the furore was due to the «amount of money being ploughed in» to the group.

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.

Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.

Peer to concentrate on charitable causes as Labour thinktank Progress says it will turn to members to make up its shortfall

The rightwing thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies said Osborne had failed to match the radicalism of Margaret Thatcher.

James Lloyd, an expert in long - term care funding at the Social Market Foundation thinktank, said creating a fair and properly funded system would need the political parties to agree and for everyone, both young and old, to contribute financially.

«They can, for example, become more brittle, susceptible to cracking or less able to cope with temperature extremes,» said Anthony Froggatt, senior research fellow at London - based thinktank Chatham House.

Glada Lahn, a senior research fellow at thinktank Chatham House, says the water issues often affect more than one country at a time, making international cooperation even more important:

Sarah Jones, of the education thinktank LKMco, said that teachers and heads would object to the suggestion that they ought to be giving something back to the exam system.

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.

The Education Datalab thinktank, which has done research into the progression of students from year 12 to 13, said the St Olave's case was part of a broader pattern of behaviour which «a minority» of sixth forms are engaging in.

World Resources Institute (WRI), the US - based thinktank, says the submission is «solid», but «the EU can go further».

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.

A recent report for thinktank Policy Exchange said heat pumps were costly and disruptive to install.