He plans to bring in a Fat Controller – as he seeks to balance the public interest with private sector freedom. This is the second piece in our rail mini-series.
Grayling is a man with a plan.
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and a Committee Member of the Conservative Transport Group. His pamphlet, Rail's second chance – putting competition back on track is published by the CPS. A short animation accompanying the pamphlet can be seen above. The announcement of new rail franchising competitions this week […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. His latest pamphlet, ‘The Atomic Clock – How the Coalition is gambling with Britain’s energy policy’ was was published by the CPS earlier this year. Conservatives can be proud of the party’s long standing support for nuclear power. It was the Eden Government, […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. His latest pamphlet, ‘The Atomic Clock – How the Coalition is gambling with Britain’s energy policy’ was published by the CPS earlier this year. By deciding to rig the electricity market against some of the cheapest and most abundant fuels available the Government […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, Chairman of the Bow Group Transport Committee and a member of the Conservative Transport Group. His pamphlet, The Right Track – Delivering the Conservatives’ Vision for High Speed Rail (pdf), was published by the Bow Group in January 2010. It supported directly routing […]
Tony Lodge is Chairman of the Bow Group Energy and Transport Committee and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. His new paper, Rescuing Renewables – How Energy Storage Can Save Green Power (with a foreword by Deputy London Mayor, Kit Malthouse) is published today by the Bow Group. The most common and […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, Chairman of the Bow Group Transport Committee and a member of the Conservative Transport Group. His pamphlet, The Right Track – Delivering the Conservatives’ Vision for High Speed Rail, was published by the Bow Group in January this year and carried a foreword […]
Tony Lodge is Chairman of the Bow Group Energy and Transport Committee and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. The Case for Energy Crops – How developing countries can help themselves and boost UK energy security is published today by the Bow Group. The UK currently has two parallel problems regarding present […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and chairman of the Bow Group's Transport Committee. The Right Track – Delivering the Conservatives’ Vision for High Speed Rail, by Tony Lodge and with a foreword by Lord Heseltine, is published today by the Bow Group. Britain risks getting the next stage […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and was author of Step off the Gas: Why over-dependence on gas is bad for the UK, which was published by the CPS last year. Criticising Britain’s woeful lack of gas storage is important and right but there remains a deep underlying problem […]
Tony Lodge is a Council Member of the Bow Group, which is today publishing Telecare – A Crucial Opportunity to help save our health and social care system, an independent analysis written by Professor Sue Yeandle of the University of Leeds. Here he summarises the pamphlet's findings. It is time to face some urgent truths […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and is author of Step off the Gas: Why over-dependence on gas is bad for the UK, which is published today by the CPS and is available to download here. Russia’s disruption of gas supplies to Europe risks becoming a fixture of the […]
Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and a Council Member of the Bow Group. He is author of Clean Coal, published by the CPS. Russia is no longer a military superpower, but its vast natural resources mean it is becoming an energy superpower. Russia’s state energy giant, Gazprom, produces […]
Our competitors look at the UK with a combination of bemusement and confusion, as they examine which industries they can lure to their shores.