Lucy Parsons is Senior Economics Researcher at Reform. The full report “Money’s too tight to mention: will the IPOD generation ever trust financial services?” is available at www.reform.co.uk. David Cameron and George Osborne have for some time highlighted the problem of debt in this country, both public and personal. Reform’s latest report shows that there […]
Elizabeth Truss is Deputy Director at Reform and Lucy Parsons is Economics Researcher at Reform. Reform’s full report “Shifting the unequal state: from public apathy to personal capability” is available here. There is much political concern about the parlous state of Britain’s social mobility. However little acknowledged is the role successive governments have had in […]
Andrew Haldenby is Reform’s Director and Lucy Parsons is Reform’s Economics Research Officer. What should we make of Gordon Brown’s call this morning for a new “stage” in the Government’s policy on public services reform? Writing in the Financial Times, the Prime Minister identifies two new goals: “no tolerance of under-performance” and “empowering the users […]
Lucy Parsons is Senior Economics Researcher at Reform and co-author of Road To Recovery, which is published today. At a Reform fringe event last week in Manchester, Jeremy Hunt advocated a more open approach in the UK’s telecommunications industry. He proposed an alternative to the Government’s £175 million tax on consumers to fund high speed […]