Report

Mending the net?

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue brings together ideas from leading centre-right thinkers for reforming social security.

The UK’s social security system seems to be a constant source of anger for our country’s voters. To those on the left, it represents a broken safety net, incapable of keeping the needy out of poverty. To those on the right, it is an inefficient money sink riddled with perverse incentives. But we can create a system that is both adequate and efficient.

This essay collection aims to bring together ideas from leading centre-right thinkers for reforming social security. It focuses on four themes: adequacy, family, work and efficiency. Contributors include: Danny Kruger MP (MP for East Wiltshire and Reform UK’s Head of Preparing for Government); The Rt Hon John Glen MP (Conservative MP for Salisbury and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition); Joe Robertson MP (Too poor to be healthy?); Henry Hill (Deputy Editor of Conservative Home); Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP (MP for Solihull West & Shirley and Member of the House of Commons Select Committee for Justice); David Goodhart (Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration at Policy Exchange) and more.