Centrist think tank | |
Website | https://centrethinktank.co.uk/ |
Centre Think Tank is a centrist cross party think tank and pressure group based in the United Kingdom[1]. It supports a "...comprehensive welfare state alongside free markets"[2] by publishing papers, policies and articles on those subjects.
The think tank was set up as a company on the 16th of January 2020[1] but it was preceded by the organisations Liberal Leave, a section of Vote Leave[3], and New Liberals[4].
As a campaigning group it has supported calls such as being a part of an open letter in the The Sunday Times|Sunday Times calling for a Proportional Property Tax[5]. As part of this, the think tank was included in written evidence to the Treasury Select Committee[6].
Its members have also called for an end to Selective school|academic selection and the system of grammar schools and secondary moderns that remain in some areas of England and Northern Ireland[7]. This included their Director, Torrin Wilkins, writing to the Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party policy forum on the issue[8].
They also support UK membership of the European Free Trade Association, something highlighted in their interview with the leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey[9] during the 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election.
As part of their campaigns they have joined various coalitions and partnered with organisations such as Make Votes Matter[10], the Lift the Ban coalition[11] and the Liberal Conservatives[12].
The organisation has published several papers[13], the publication itself having an International Standard Serial Number[14]. Their fourth paper called for students to be able to use toilets' during lessons[15] which was covered by the Free Market Conservatives[16].
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Centre published two reports[17][18] proposing solutions for those excluded from the governments British government response to the COVID-19 pandemic|furlough scheme and the British government response to the COVID-19 pandemic|Self Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS). The latter of these on expanding furlough was covered by the The Yorkshire Post|Yorkshire Post[19] and received a response from HM Treasury[20].
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
This article "Centre Think Tank" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. Articles taken from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be accessed on Wikipedia's Draft Namespace.
Categories: [Companies established in 2020] [Companies of the United States]