Iain Mansfield
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Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
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Joined April 2018
Check out the latest edition of my @FT newsletter. (1/2) The Budget Britain needs—but won't get https://t.co/Dw4SQUyl57 With insights from @Policy_Exchange, @ASI, @OxfordEconomics, @jonmoyni, @Sam_Dumitriu and @Ben_A_Hopkinson
ft.com
Rachel Reeves can break the UK’s fiscal ‘doom loop’ by backing business and workers
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Some very good ideas here in this excellent article by Tej for the FT!
Check out the latest edition of my @FT newsletter. (1/2) The Budget Britain needs—but won't get https://t.co/Dw4SQUyl57 With insights from @Policy_Exchange, @ASI, @OxfordEconomics, @jonmoyni, @Sam_Dumitriu and @Ben_A_Hopkinson
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Good to see Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp’s speech today to the Police Chiefs and PCCs’ conference referencing our @Policy_Exchange research and recommendations on stop and search from earlier this year
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Thank you to @stephenkb for (again!) referencing my Seven Rules of Thumb for Public Polocy in his column yesterday. Specifically, Rule 4: Banning something reduces its prevalence, but not to nothing. https://t.co/3Gej1KA7ul
ft.com
Risky journeys across the Channel are the result of tough border control, not its failure
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Another reminder that for a whole generation of Britain's governing class, Brexit was the one big thing on which they didn't get their own way - which is why it, rather than decades-gestating disasters like housing and infrastructure, always gets top billing in things like this.
One of the most powerful, lucid and actionable blueprints about how to turn the boat around on the UK economy. Truly excellent by John and Andrew - if you want to learn how the UK economy dysfunctions, and how it could work better, read this. https://t.co/vivVGEyQZF
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The right should warmly welcome Shabana Mahmood’s reforms today. As well as some eminently sensible changes, these are pretty much as hardline as our asylum laws can be made while still remaining signatories to foreign treaties like the ECHR. If they fail - especially
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“We’ve lost the plot, and we have to have the courage, I think on a cross-party basis… to say we’ve got to think again.” @TiceRichard speaking at @Policy_Exchange earlier today on SEND, mental health and welfare in children and young people👇
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It's taken 18 months of PQs and FOI requests from me to drag out of the government the number of DEI staff each department employs. The MOD have 77, Health 55 etc. 510 in all and numbers are growing fast under Labour. Yet Reeves says there's no alternative to tax rises...
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Excellent piece on how to balance the budget and put growth first by @tejparikh90. Breaking the triple lock, freezing allowances and more ambition on welfare. Plus tax simplification, planning reform and delaying the 'day-one' workers' rights reforms. https://t.co/NlLfo9wsxd
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Fantastic news that Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine have received £20,000 in compensation from Hertfordshire Police. Second time this year the @speechunion has secured a £20,000 payout from the police after they arrested someone for hurty words. https://t.co/t1Wy8TZ65o
thetimes.com
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were detained in front of their daughter over messages they had sent on WhatsApp
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Lawfare against UK forces is back in the news, with nine former military chiefs publicly challenging the treatment of those who served in Northern Ireland and the application of European human rights law to British military operations abroad. 🧵 https://t.co/OZdRpJrfQ5
thetimes.com
Nine four-star generals warn that ‘lawfare’ and the erosion of soldiers’ trust in the legal system is a direct national security threat
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The soft drink companies should learn that they can’t appease the puritans and put all the sugar back in.l, as I recommended last month.
thecritic.co.uk
The Chief Operating Officer of Suntory, the company that makes Ribena and Lucozade, was in the Sunday Times at the weekend making vague threats to the UK government. She is not happy about a proposed…
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Join us tomorrow for 'Building Resilient Generations: Unlocking Opportunity in Welfare, SEND & Mental Health' 🗣️@TiceRichard, @amanda_spielman and Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton CBE, chaired by Jean-André Prager 📆Monday 17th November 2025, 13:00-14:00 Register to attend👇
policyexchange.org.uk
Event Details: Date: Monday 17th November 2025Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: In Person and Online In Person Registration Webinar Registration About this Event Building Resilient Generations: Unlocking...
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Her back-benchers will not allow her to cut spending. The bond markets will not allow her to borrow more. Reeves has no good options left - only a choice of evils. https://t.co/WTRKrkhfa9
edrith.co.uk
Incremental politics no longer works
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Her back-benchers will not allow her to cut spending. The bond markets will not allow her to borrow more. Reeves has no good options left - only a choice of evils. https://t.co/WTRKrkhfa9
edrith.co.uk
Incremental politics no longer works
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3. I’m not planning to leave Twitter anytime soon but I would love to engage with more educators. Anyway, here is my first Substack. Feel free to follow and subscribe :) https://t.co/ztfwsuS1IT
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Rachel Reeves has no good choices left. After this week's income tax u-turn, is there any way she can salvage the Budget? https://t.co/q6cSmUKxcX
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Rachel Reeves has no good choices left. After this week's income tax u-turn, is there any way she can salvage the Budget? https://t.co/q6cSmUKxcX
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Millions of people rely on the BBC News app push notifications to find out what is going on in the world. So I looked at a year of notifications for this week's @spectator.
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