Economic trouble (18 Dec 2008)

November 2008 article on Conservative Home where Charlie Elphicke summarises his latest Centre for Policy Studies paper

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Uh-Oh, We're In Trouble (17 Nov 2008)

2008 Centre for Policy Studies paper setting how how Gordon Brown has basically managed to bankrupt Britain.

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Why do we feel so broke? (03 Feb 2008)

2008 Centre for Policy Studies paper showing how for an average earning household with an average mortgage, disposable income after tax and housing costs has fallen in nominal terms by £950 since 2002.

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Tackle worklessness, reduce immigration (05 Nov 2007)

Autumn 2007 article where Charlie Elphicke argues that the challenge of worklessness is being shirked by importing migrant labour.

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Plan for Dover Healthcare Autumn 2007 (17 Sep 2007)

Charlie Elphicke sets out his plan for a proper hospital in Dover.

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Moving Britain to Go (01 Jun 2007)

Summer 2007 article on how to make Britain grow more quickly so everybody gets better off.

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Gordon Brown - from Sherriff of Nottingham to King of Inequality (24 May 2007)

Summer 2007 article highlighting the ever-widening gap between the poorest and the richest under Gordon Brown's misguided tax and benefits system.

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Are you better off now than you were four years ago? (15 Mar 2007)

2007 Centre for Policy Studies paper applying Ronald Reagan’s “killer question” to the UK today

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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a lot will make you rich (14 Mar 2007)

In this article, Charlie makes the case for a knowledge revolution - especially in vocational and skills education.

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Where has your pay rise gone? (24 Dec 2006)

2006 Centre for Policy Studies paper showing that average earnings growth over the last five years stagnated in real terms, while taxes and housing costs both increased. The result is that real disposable income (after tax and housing costs) has risen by 0.4% from £22,710 per employee in 2001 to just £22,807 per employee in 2005. In effect, pay rises have been consumed by increased taxes and housing costs.

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Next steps on tax for the Tories (10 Oct 2006)

In this Autumn 2006 article, Brooks Newmark MP and Charlie Elphicke set out the need to change the tax system to help the least well off, help pensioners and make Britain stronger.

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Taxcutters versus stabilisers? (07 Oct 2006)

This Autumn 2006 article by Stephen Hammond MP and Charlie Elphicke looks at how Conservative tax thinking is joined up more than people think and that the tax cutters and "stabilisers" are actually saying similar things.

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Robin Hood or Sheriff of Nottingham? (31 Aug 2006)

2006 Centre for Policy Studies paper on winners and losers from tax and benefit reform over the last 10 years.

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The tax double whammy (01 Jun 2006)

2006 Centre for Policy Studies paper on how more tax costs even more than you think

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The case for reducing business taxes (10 Jan 2006)

What it says on the tin . . .

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SAINTs can get Britain saving again (08 Nov 2005)

2005 Centre for Policy Studies paper with ideas on the reform of private pensions.

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Ending pensioner poverty (10 Feb 2004)

2004 paper for the Centre for Policy Studies on reforming the pension system to enable retirement with dignity.

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