Onward

The UK's Leading Centre-Right Think Tank

[Onward @ukonward]

Onward is delighted to announce that Alex Morton has joined us as Head of Political Economy.

Alex has worked across Westminster for 20 years including the No10 Policy Unit and as policy lead for Kemi Badenoch's leadership campaigns. He brings unrivalled insight into how government works and the shifting politics on the right.

[Onward @ukonward]

Onward is delighted to announce that Ed Hezlet is joining us as Head of Energy. Ed will be leading on our energy abundance work, bringing policy expertise and insight that has made him one of the foremost analysts of Britain’s energy issues.

Follow Ed on X here @watt_direction

[Onward @ukonward]

Closing today, applications by 6pm

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

🚨 We’re hiring a new researcher at @ukonward!

If you want to help lead the renewal of the centre-right, we want to hear from you 🫵

https://t.co/57zfvHbApC

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

🚨 We’re hiring a new researcher at @ukonward!

If you want to help lead the renewal of the centre-right, we want to hear from you 🫵

https://t.co/57zfvHbApC

[Onward @ukonward]

The UK has the most expensive industrial energy prices in the world. It doesn't have to be this way.

@SirSimonClarke writes in @ConHome on how we deliver cheap, sovereign and abundant energy, and why our new Energy Commission is generating the plans to get us there. 👇

https://t.co/LwHOtTHX6G

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

Net Zero has gone much too far, much too fast.

Cheap electricity is the right priority for both the economy and the environment.

@ukonward is working on an energy plan for a future centre-right government, ready for Day One.

Last night we hosted @ClaireCoutinho👇

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

Great to chair a stellar @ukonward panel on how the UK can get digital regulation right and be a tech leader this morning!

Huge thanks to @bhatti_saqib, @jujulemons, @andSamiah, @ben_greenstone and Professor Philip Marsden for their insights, and to our sponsors @Microsoft

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

🔔 Reminder: applications for the Head of Energy role @ukonward close at 6pm on Tuesday 21st.

The chance to lead one of the most interesting and important programmes in Westminster thinktank world👇

https://t.co/LhELnVLlrj

[Caroline Elsom @CarolineElsom]

📰More coverage of "The Hidden Benefits Bill" with @ukonward in today's @DailyMail.

Read the full report here: https://t.co/uqdc661U4T

[Nicholas Stephenson @N1ckSteph]

Really interesting stuff from Scarlett, Emily, and The New Statesman.

Backs up a lot of @ukonward's findings in our Ballot of the Sexes report on the widening gender divide, particularly on rising radicalism and polarisation in young people.

[Gavin Rice @gavinantonyrice]

🚨News Claxon!

After 3 very happy years at @ukonward I'll be joining Nick Timothy, Shadow Justice Secretary & Shadow Lord Chancellor, as Senior Political Adviser.

Tons of work to be done holding Labour to account in this vital area.

Vacancy at Onward announced today 👀

[Caroline Elsom @CarolineElsom]

It is hard to ignore the déjà vu of terrible options for energy bill support doing the rounds in Whitehall.

My piece in @TheCriticMag on why the Chancellor's preferred option - the Warm Home Discount - is the worst and most cynical of them all.

https://t.co/3fsNb7xBUk

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

🚨@ukonward is recruiting!

We are seeking a new Head of Energy

Task: to lead on designing a detailed plan for UK energy policy for a centre-right government in a post Net Zero world, capable of day one implementation👇

https://t.co/LhELnVLlrj

[Onward @ukonward]

Watch our live panel event: Hidden Benefits - Counting the cost of extra welfare with @FraserNelson @Helen_Whately @CarolineElsom @LanaHempsall

https://t.co/DuJSgsL3Uq

[Green Street News @newsgreenstreet]

"Land readjustment is less fragile than negotiated sales but more democratic than compulsory purchase"

Opinon |Land assembly doesn't work: here's how to fix it | @PMArslanagic, @ukonward

https://t.co/ncIxLYfVPy

[Caroline Elsom @CarolineElsom]

Great to see The Hidden Benefits Bill feature in @TheIFS's Universal Credit Review, highlighting the cliff edges created by passported benfits that are undermining work incentives.

Join us tomorrow @ukonward to hear more: https://t.co/2Lyz8C6Pe1

https://t.co/SnwbbNU0g2

[Phoebe Arslanagić-Little @PMArslanagic]

Small groups with something to lose are very effective at stopping change. That's one reason why getting necessary homes and infrastructure built can be so difficult. In our new paper, Onward sets out a proposal to introduce land readjustment to the UK, a land assembly mechanism that gives the people most likely to oppose a development, the landowners themselves, excellent reasons to support it. But how does it work?

Working with a developer, land readjustment allows landowners to pool their plots into a single scheme so the area can be redeveloped as a whole. After the development, the landowners receive back a piece of land in the area, significantly more valuable than the plot they had before.

The scheme can *only* go ahead if a supermajority of landowners who own a supermajority of the land in question support the scheme. This prevents any single or small group of landowners from vetoing a development while also motivating the developer to draw up a scheme that can win the support of most of the landowners, and to return to the drawing board if it doesn't.

This democratic element makes land readjustment less fragile than assembling land by negotiating with each landowner, when any single party can refuse to engage or demand an extortionate price. It is also far more democratic than compulsory purchase.

To learn more about land readjustment, and its use in other parts of the world, read our paper below.
https://t.co/rHNGnyJlLy

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

🔔 New @ukonward paper released this morning from the brilliant @PMArslanagic 👇

How land readjustment policies, as seen in Japan, could help deliver transformational regeneration projects here in the UK.

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

📅 Join @ukonward tomorrow evening (Tuesday 17th) to discuss our landmark report on Hidden Benefits

Featuring @FraserNelson, @Helen_Whately, Lana Hempsall and report author @CarolineElsom👇

A packed room for a vital debate (plus a glass of wine) - last few places left

[Onward @ukonward]

Sign up here: https://t.co/T0S3ArxRSw

[Onward @ukonward]

The government spends over *£10 billion* a year on welfare benefits outside of Universal Credit.

Come to our event on 17th March with @FraserNelson, @Helen_Whately, @LanaHempsall and @CarolineElsom to join us in discussing how this sprawling and complicated system developed and what should be done about it.

Sign up on the link in the threaded tweet.