Policy Exchange
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Policy Exchange is a British conservative[1][2][3][4] think tank based in London. In 2007 it was described in The Daily Telegraph as "the largest, but also the most influential think tank on the right".[5] The Washington Post said Policy Exchange's reports "often inform government policy in Britain."[6] and Iain Dale described it on ConservativeHome as the "pre-eminent think tank in the Westminster village".[7] Policy Exchange is a registered charity.[8] It refuses to disclose the sources of its funding.
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Formation | 29 April 2002; 22 years ago (2002-04-29) |
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Founder | Nick Boles, Lord Maude and Archie Norman |
Type | Think tank |
Legal status | Charity |
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Director | The Lord Godson |
Chairman of Trustees | Alexander Downer, former High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom |
Website | policyexchange.org.uk judicialpowerproject.org.uk |
Founded in 2002, it describes itself as "an independent, non-partisan educational charity whose mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas that will deliver better public services, a stronger society and a more dynamic economy."[9]
The policy ideas developed by the think tank which have been adopted as government policy include free schools, Police and Crime Commissioners, Garden Villages and protecting the armed forces from prosecution under human rights laws. Policy Exchange has a unit called Judicial Power Project[10] that examines the power of the British judiciary and argues that unelected judges have accrued too much power.
It describes itself as seeking localist, volunteer and free-market solutions to public policy problems, with research programmes covering education and social reform, energy and environment, Britain's place in the world, economics and industrial policy, housing policy, space, counter-terrorism and demography, integration and immigration.