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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · 9d

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

Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · 9d

📢 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...

Better parental leave and 'universal credit lottery' among other suggestions in centre-right book of essays

inews.co.uk

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 18d

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...

Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Aug 20

Great to be in No.10 again. We talked about @brightblueuk.bsky.social's ideas on justice & home affairs, specifically that will create:

🔴 A more selective, contributory-based skilled migration system
🔴 A drugs policy - for both legal & illegal drugs - that will reduce harms to individuals & society

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣 Government adopts @brightblueuk.bsky.social and @thefabians.bsky.social recommendation for a new Pensions Commission

Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/pensions-com...

📘 Read our original report here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Jul 3

Delighted to speak today with Head of Policy at 10 Downing Street about radical @brightblueuk.bsky.social ideas to help a moderate Labour Government:

📈 Increase prosperity
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Support families
💷 Make tax system simpler & fairer
🏠 Democraticise asset ownership
🛂 Manage immigration
🌳 Green our economy

Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Jun 18

📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social launch a mega-report on future of European centre-right - to beat the statist left & populist right

🔵 5 countries studies
🔵 3 key principles identified
🔵 10 new priorities proposed

📚 Read: www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/ri...

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣 THIS WEEK @brightblueuk.bsky.social & the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung publish a mega-report on the future of European centre-right

Proposes 10 new distinctive priorities - w/ supporting policies - for the centre-right to beat populist right & statist left

Sign up: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · May 29

We were delighted to host the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Stephen Timms MP, for a speech on ‘Expanding economic activity.’

📖 Read the speech here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stephen-timm...

📺 Watch the speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · Jun 3

📢Join Bright Blue and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for a public panel event launching our brand new report: 'The future of the European centre-right: evolving past the challenges'

⏰Tuesday 17th June 2025 11:30 am -14:00 pm⏰

🙋‍♀️Full event details and RSVP here: brightblue.org.uk/future-of-th...

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · May 27

My recent article for the Yorkshire Post. Ideas to build on what was announced in the Government's latest Immigration White Paper.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

This is an extract from a recent @brightblueuk.bsky.social book on immigration: www.brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · May 27

We were delighted to partner with @financialfairness.bsky.social last week on a major conference to discuss one of the most urgent challenges of the 2020s: how to raise living standards

Shadow Chief Secretary to Treasury delivered a thoughtful speech. Read here www.brightblue.org.uk/richard-full...

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · May 12

OUT NOW @brightblueuk.bsky.social's report on immigration

"Mainstream parties need honest and deliverable policy prospectus to reduce immigration"

🔵 10 essays
🔵 Over 40 policy ideas

Covered in Sunday Express, The Telegraph, Times Higher Education & Politico

www.brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Raising the bar? How centre-right policies can improve living standards - Bright Blue

Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · May 9

📢 Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social & @financialfairness.bsky.social for our conference next week on raising living standards

We’re exploring supply-side reforms, taxation & employers in boosting incomes

🎤 Speech: Shadow Chief Secretary to HM Treasury

Sign up: www.brightblue.org.uk/raising-the-...

Raising the bar? How centre-right policies can improve living standards

www.brightblue.org.uk

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · May 8

Delighted to host the @brightblueuk.bsky.social Spring Reception last week.

I said:

"The liberal centre-right - as opposed to the authoritarian right and statist left - will have our time again soon, to fix the big problems and build a more prosperous, green and abundant country."

Reciprocal tariffs: you won’t believe how they came up with the numbers

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Apr 3

The tariff methodology is brain-scramblingly bad - on.ft.com/42lgic3 via @financialtimes.com

There is some method to the madness — it’s just a nonsensical method

on.ft.com

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Apr 3

📢 This month's @brightblueuk.bsky.social bulletin: #Adolescence, social media & the chronically online

+ Our Spring Reception
+ Our work on living standards
+ We're hiring
+ Our policy wins

Read more here: mailchi.mp/brightblue/b...

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · Mar 24

🌍 Our Exec-Chair @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social quoted in @theguardian.com on Kemi Badenoch’s energy plans:

“There will be unsustainable costs to both our environment and economy if we do not achieve net zero emissions by the middle of this century...”

🔗 Read more: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch accused of breaking pledge to Tory MPs of net zero by 2050

MPs claim during her 2022 party leadership campaign she promised them she was committed to green targets

www.theguardian.com

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚨Join us for a keynote speech by The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Social Security and Disability, on ‘Expanding economic activity'
⏰Thursday 1st May 2025
📍H/Advisors Maitland, 3 Pancras Square, London
📩Please RSVP directly to [email protected]

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Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social · Mar 18

🍺Join us for our next drink tank with @kimleadbeater
🗓️Tuesday 29th April 2025, 7pm-8pm
📍The Spying Room, The Morpeth Arms
📲https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drink-tank-with-kim-leadbeater-mp-tickets-1249292570709?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Mar 18

📣 Bright Blue's response to the new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) green paper launched today:

"Labour Government makes a strong start in reforming welfare"

+ 3 @brightblueuk.bsky.social policy wins

📘 Read our full response here: www.brightblue.org.uk/welfare-poli...

Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social · Mar 11

My letter today to The Telegraph

Advice to the DWP from @brightblueuk.bsky.social on bringing down the benefits bill

www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...