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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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 [...]
DEBATE: Is there any point trying to find love in lockdown?

October 21, 2020

Is there any point trying to find love in lockdown? JOIN THE DEBATE. Emma Sayle, founder and chief executive of social network Killing Kittens, says YES. When lockdown started, traffic to the Killing Kittens website went up 300 per cent. We had 150 per cent more photo uploads and 425 per cent more messages — [...]
DEBATE: Should the social distancing restrictions on weddings be dropped?

October 9, 2020

Should the social distancing restrictions on weddings be dropped? Mark Henriques, managing director of Cripps & Co and petitioner seeking an injunction against the government measures, says YES. In March, lockdown shattered the plans of the thousands of people set to marry this year. I have watched with dismay as a temporary upset, caused by [...]
DEBATE: Are the life chances of the Covid-19 generation damaged beyond repair?

August 24, 2020

Are the life chances of the Covid-19 generation damaged beyond repair? Emma Revell, head of communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, says YES. Young people have had a rough pandemic. Months of education gone, exam grades tainted by confusion and uncertainty even after the U-turn, the future burden of spiralling public debt against a [...]
DEBATE: Is the plan to revitalise John Lewis likely to be a success?

July 31, 2020

Is the plan to revitalise John Lewis likely to be a success? Emma Revell, head of communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, says YES. Bricks and mortar retail was in decline well before coronavirus hit and large department stores were struggling to afford sky-high rents on their enormous buildings. By recognising the changes in [...]

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