Ryan Shorthouse

Reeves is outrageously complacent on economic growth The dust has settled on the Chancellor's pointless Spring Statement and it looks even worse in the rear-view mirror than it did in real time.

Spring Statement forecast only modest improvements in living standards

We argue that instead of just focussing on boosting incomes, we also need to cut essential costs to boost the living standards of low-to-middle income households

Covered in @cityam.bsky.social

www.cityam.com/reeves-is-ou...

📣 OUT TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social launches a new report on how to boost living standards

This report offers:

🔷 2 distinctive centre-right principles to guide policymaking: abundance and certainty
🔷 8 new policies to reduce the costs of housing and energy

www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/hi...

🚨 Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social for our Members' Meet Up

Sir Tristram Hunt, Director of V&A, will be discussing 'Art and the future of Britain.'

🕖 Thursday 5th March , 7pm
📍Morpeth Arms, 58 Millbank, SW1P 4RW

Join us as a member to attend. Sign up here: www.brightblue.org.uk/support/#Mem...

My letter to @thetimes.com today on how to reform the student loans system

www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

📺Bright Blue's, Executive Chair,
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social on @cnbc.com covering the Gorton and Denton by-election📰

🍺 TONIGHT @brightblueuk.bsky.social hosts our Drink Tank with @labouruk.bsky.social MP Peter Swallow, Chair of the APPG on Social Mobility

🕖 7 PM - 8:30 PM
📍Morpeth Arms, 58 Millbank, London SW1P 4RW

Sign up here: www.brightblue.org.uk/drink-tank-w...

Great to be on @cnbc.com this morning talking about the upcoming, unpredictable Gorton and Denton by-election

📺 Watch @brightblueuk.bsky.social latest Ludgate Lecture with Professor Eric Kaufmann from the University of Buckingham

“What comes after Woke?”

More here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Government adopts Bright Blue recommendations on wood-burning stoves - Bright Blue Bright Blue responds to the Government's Leeds Reforms, including a review of lending rules to potentially allow a prospective buyer to get a...

Two @brightblueuk.bsky.social policy wins announced by DEFRA:

🔹 Introducing mandatory labelling on new wood-burning stoves
🔹Tightening emissions standards on new wood-burning stoves

Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stoves-win-2...

📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social publishes a major new report on reducing victims and abuses of modern slavery in the UK asylum system, proposing 8 new policies.

📘 Read it here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🗞️ Read about it in The Guardian: theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bright Blue is hiring for a Communications Manager.

Deadline: 1st December 2025

Position can be full-time or part-time.

Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social

My letter in The Spectator today

@thespectator1828.bsky.social

www.spectator.co.uk/article/lett...

My letter in @thetimes.com today

www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

Delighted I & @brightblueuk.bsky.social have co-authored this new paper on tax reform

Impressive to have such cross-party consensus from think tanks.

Well done to @centaxuk.bsky.social for co-ordinating.

Abolishing Stamp Duty is no silver bullet | Ryan Shorthouse | The Critic Magazine Though there may be some positive spillover effects from the tax cuts the Conservative Opposition are now promising, all of them, especially abolishing Stamp Duty…

My article for The Critic

⚪️ Some spurious arguments for abolishing Stamp Duty, especially that it is preventing downsizing
⚪️ There are better tax property regimes - such as an annual proportional property tax - but politically and technically challenging to deliver

thecritic.co.uk/abolishing-s...

My latest article on the situation in Israel and Gaza for The Circus, the bulletin of @brightblueuk.bsky.social

✔️ Also, 6 recent policy wins with the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Government

📚 Read The Circus here: mailchi.mp/44eff4615b57...

Reflecting on the future of the centre-right.

Thank you to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for hosting such energising and educational seminars in beautiful Lake Como.

Delighted to launch a new online daily magazine:
@centrewrite.bsky.social

Find thoughtful contributions from authors every day, starting with Mel Stride's interview, here: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/interview-wi...

Subscribe to weekly roundups on our homepage: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk

The anti-social menace will be our undoing The train stank of weed, and several people were playing music out loud on their phones. There were too many for me to stomp up and down the carriage asking the offenders in my usual diplomatic way to...

✍️Today's article from Centre Write:
@bijanomrani.bsky.social explains why ‘The anti-social menace will be our undoing’.

Read here👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/the-anti-soc...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social

Moldova’s PAS shows Russians can be beat For a party that once prided itself on knowing every doorstep in Britain, the Conservatives have somehow lost the knack of knocking on them. Bizarrely, it was Moldova that reminded the centre-right…

Today, Alex Gunter writes about what @conservatives.bsky.social can learn from Moldova's Party of Action and Solidarity.

Read the article on Centre Write👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/moldovas-pas...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk

📢 Today Bright Blue launches a new essay collection in partnership with @jrf-uk.bsky.social:

'Mending the net? A new centre-right approach to social security'

📖Read the full report here: brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...

🧵Follow this thread for more details 👇

Ludgate Lecture with John Curtice: How polling has changed politics YouTube video by Bright Blue

Join us today for our online #LudgateLecture where University of Strathclyde's Professor of Practice, Sir John Curtice, discusses what polls tell us about whether Britain's two-party system can survive.

📅Thursday 30th October
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍Watch live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhe...

ECHR exit would lose Tories votes If there’s one thing in politics worth remembering, it is not to get caught in an argument that unites your opponents and splits your friends. The announcement on the European Convention on Human…

⚖️ @mrjcrouch.bsky.social argues that the Conservative Party would lose votes by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

📖Read the full article on Centre Write: centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/leaving-the-...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social
@opiniumresearch.bsky.social

#Tories #politics #ECHR

🔥 LAST WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social launched our new online magazine @centrewrite.bsky.social

Check it out & subscribe to our weekly email here centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk

Centre Write will be a home for centrist, liberal & conservative readers searching for thoughtful writing & radical ideas

Cutting Britain's giant welfare bill would be an act of kindness The rate of poverty across the population has been pretty static over the past few decades, but child poverty has risen in recent years.

My article in @thespectator1828.bsky.social today

spectator.co.uk/article/to-s...

This is an extract from a new book by @brightblueuk.bsky.social out today.

📘 Read the book here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Read the full book here: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/me...

Tory Reform defector Danny Kruger calls for two-child benefit cap to be scrapped Better parental leave and 'universal credit lottery' among other suggestions in centre-right book of essays

📢 OUT TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social release a book on a new centre-right approach to social security

Includes contributions from @conservatives.bsky.social and @reformuk.bsky.social politicians and thought leaders

🗞️ Covered in @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

TODAY Join us at the @libdems.org.uk Party Conference 2025 at 11:30am

🗣️
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social
@willforster.bsky.social
@carlcashman.bsky.social

📍Blandford Syndicate 3, Highcliff Marriott Hotel

🤝
@propertymark.bsky.social

IfG at the Conservative Party Conference | What is the Conservative route to fiscal sustainability?

Join us in Manchester! With: Richard Fuller MP,
@tompope.bsky.social
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social @trinhtu.bsky.social
@gemmatetlow.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-co...

Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social in Bournemouth at the upcoming 2025 @libdems.org.uk Party Conference

We're hosting 2 public fringe events outside the secure zone

Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/upcoming-eve...