Schools have become a feeder for the benefits system. With 1/5 pupils receiving support, it is no surprise that we are seeing a huge increase in young adults living on benefits - it's what they are taught to do. Read my full thoughts in the The Spectator here:

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Matt Ryder, the report author, said:

These "flaws" are all addressed in our paper. The reaction and support we've received show that the public is rightly concerned with this subsidy masquerading as a welfare provision. It's time to reform Motability!

🚗 Must-read report from the Adam Smith Institute and Matt Ryder on the excesses of the Motability scheme and how to change it. The response from Motability Operations is telling - each of their flimsy rebuttals are dismantled in the report. More on Motability from Onward coming soon...

Now the triple lock has given such a strong boost to pensioner incomes, there is a clear case for fairness to link future increases to increases in average earnings among the working population. No one wins if Britain goes bust. Me in City A.M.👇 cityam.com/time-for-polit…

Why is Ed Davey targeting voters who don't exist? Almost no-one switched from Tory to Lib Dem at the last election - the biggest defection by far was to Reform. And the ones that did are not posh, anti-Brexit social liberals. They are the opposite. My latest The Telegraph 👇

The small number who did defect directly to the Lib Dems are nothing like the voters Davey describes. Following the advice of The Rest is Politics vibes-peddlers would be as disastrous for Davey as it would be for Badenoch. Full Piece: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/2…

I cite evidence from Onward's major post-election study of the Tory defeat, Breaking Blue. View our video documentary summarising the causes of the 2024 defeat here: youtube.com/watch?v=heI0qC…

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The mystery of Lib Dem strategy laid out by Gavin Rice

The idea of a "Lib Dem cost" to addressing Reform-waverer issues - immigration, crime - is simply wrong.

It’s one thing to talk about growth and to put it in a headline - it’s entirely another to actually do it. This report gives real and practical suggestions as to how to do it. Great work from Simon Clarke and Onward Let’s hope someone in Government listens!

🚨Britain is losing £120 billion of investment - due to *bat surveys* Labs & data centres are being blocked by mountains of paperwork One fusion demonstration plant in Oxfordshire had to submit 4,000 pages of planning docs! A new Onward report reveals this & more...👇

From Lana Hempsall: The rise of the welfare state – and Labour’s refusal to rein it in conservativehome.com/2025/09/26/lan…

IfG at the Conservative Party Conference | How should governments rewire the state to get things done? Join us in Manchester! With Jesse Norman, Caroline Elsom, Eve Norridge Onward, Hannah White, Alex Thomas instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-cons…