By: Emma Revell

Emma Revell is External Affairs Director at the Centre for Policy Studies. She has worked in Westminster for eight years, across various think tanks and industry bodies. She enjoys talking about housing, inter-generational inequality, and growth and represents the CPS work on a wide range of topics. She is a regular guest on BBC, LBC, GB News, and also writes a monthly column for ConservativeHome.

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Giving into the demands of NHS workers has only emboldened them to ask for more

August 6, 2024

Thinking a pay rise would put NHS strikes to rest has proven wishful thinking. This government must draw a line, writes Emma Revell What was your last pay rise? Did it match inflation, maybe beat it a bit? Even if it did, there’s a good chance it didn’t make up for the last two years [...]
Westminster is broken – literally

July 30, 2024

Welcome to parliament new MPs – now please vote to kick yourselves out so the building can be restored, before it’s too late, writes Emma Revell Labour are making a lot of noise about the mess they’ve inherited from the Tories. But there’s one issue that’s messier than almost any other, and where tough decisions [...]
Renationalisation won’t get our railways back on track

July 23, 2024

Slow, crowded and expensive, there’s no doubt our railways need a major overhaul – but it’s far from clear that Great British Railways is the answer, says Emma Revell One of the many delightful quirks of our democracy is the State Opening of Parliament, where the government’s legislative agenda for the coming session is set [...]
The housing crisis is trapping adults in perpetual adolescence

July 16, 2024

Older generations don’t understand the emotional toll lack of housing is taking on young people who are having to postpone adult milestones, says Emma Revell In an ironic turn of events, I may have become one of the first home-owners of the Starmer era. On 5th July, having been awake for well over 24 hours [...]
Is Keir Starmer the Gareth Southgate of politics?

July 2, 2024

Like the England Manager, the Labour leader helms a united team ready to face up to 14 years of hurt (electoral defeats). But the nation’s hopes could so easily turn to soul-crushing despair if the next government fails to bring it home, says Emma Revell If it doesn’t work out as England manager, Gareth Southgate [...]
Is Keir Starmer ready to be unpopular?

June 25, 2024

Both Starmer and Sunak are pretending that only the other side’s plans will costs us more – neither is being honest about the true scale of the challenges Britain is facing, says Emma Revell One of the most frustrating things about elections, if you’re a political campaigner, is that politicians keep talking about what they [...]
Build, Baby, Build: Why stamp duty is Britain’s worst tax

June 18, 2024

Stamp duty isn’t just unpopular, it’s gumming up the housing market and leaving people stuck in properties totally unsuitable for their needs. The next government must raise the threshold or ditch it altogether, says Emma Revell The housing crisis is, at its heart, about supply. For decades, we simply have not built enough homes to [...]
Britain needs to rediscover the revolutionary spirit of Thatcher

June 4, 2024

So much of what Thatcher achieved is now taken for granted, but the free market ideas and reforming zeal she embodied are needed now more than ever, says Emma Revell Margaret Thatcher is, to put it mildly, a divisive figure. Even a decade after her death and more than 30 years after she left Downing [...]
Some degrees are useless, but it’s the 2:1 obsession we really need to leave behind

July 19, 2023

Creeping credentialism reinforces the narrative that a degree is the most reliable route into an ever-increasing number of jobs.
DEBATE: Should we have ID verification for social media?

July 15, 2021

England football stars Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancha were targeted with horrific racist abuse on social media after the team lost to Italy in the Euros 2020 final. The abuse was loudly condemned by all sides of politics, with Boris Johnson slamming the “disgusting” comments. It has prompted another disgusting: should there be [...]

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