A Conservative MP has led the way in proposing how London could be rebalanced away from the super-rich and back towards the mass of its citizens.
The question isn’t whether one is for development, but rather what development is for
Nicholas Boys Smith is the author of Reforming Welfare and a former advisor on welfare policy. In this piece he argues that Housing Benefit is not just unfair, but a disaster for its recipients, the housing market and the British economy. However, it is good at coping with “polygamous arrangements”… Now it gets nasty. Removing […]
We asked a few friends of ConservativeHome to offer 100 word thoughts on how George Osborne might prepare to lift Britain’s economy. Our contributors didn’t all keep to the word limit but their responses cover a wide range of economic policy angles. Nicholas Boys-Smith, Consultant Director of Reform: "George Osborne is the most successful Conservative […]
Nicholas Boys Smith was an advisor on welfare policy to the then Secretary of State for Social Security, Peter Lilley, before working at McKinsey & Co. He now runs his own strategy consultancy and was secretary to the Tax Reform Commission. Today he publishes Reforming Welfare with the think tank Reform (Times) and unpacks some […]
Nicholas Boys Smith is a former parliamentary candidate and has served as a front bench adviser in Government and in Opposition. This is an excerpt from ‘True Blue: How Fair Conservatism can win the next election’, published by Demos on Monday. Details of the events launch can be read here. I have spent part of […]
Nicholas Boys Smith is the director of Create Streets a new organisation which has been set up encourage and facilitate the replacement of multi-storey housing with real houses with gardens in real streets rather than multi-storey housing with communal space. Their report, Create Streets, is published in conjunction with Policy Exchange today. The vast majority […]