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Ben Harris-Quinney, Bow Group Chairman
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Sir Roger Scruton, Bow Group Honorary Patron
“It’s so important to have a really strong intellectual base from which to develop policy, and the research material that began the Brexit movement and the Maastricht rebellion was a pamphlet published by the Bow Group. The Bow Group has always been at the heart of British and conservative patriotism.”
Sir Bill Cash MP, Bow Group Senior Patron
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Dr John O’Sullivan, Bow Group Senior Patron
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Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank
On 31st August 2011 the Guardian published an article Obesity plan could cost shoppers dear which featured criticism from the Children’s Food Campaign about the Government’s Change4Life voucher initiative. The Change4Life voucher scheme aims to make a...
By 2025 the number of people aged 85 or older in England is set to increase by 70% to nearly two million. In this group more than a third of men (37%) and more than half of women (55%) live alone. Most have a limiting long term illness.Responding to the...
The correlation between making large donations to the Labour Party and receiving an honour is extraordinary. Statistical analysis shows that 58.54% of all donors giving more than £50,000 to the Labour Party receive an honour. This compares to just 0.035%...
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A new report from the Bow Group examines the track record of Ken Livingstone as London Mayor and uncovers rising taxes and worse public services. The research, released today, sees council taxes £300 higher in London than elsewhere in the UK driven by a 174%...
It is ten years since Tony Blair made education his priority in government. An entire generation of pupils have passed through school under Labour’s watch. Pupils who were in the first year of primary school in May 1997 finished their GCSEs last summer. Has every...
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All Hot Air - Labour's Failed Strategy on Fuel Poverty. Download the pdf to read the full paper.
including contributions from Simon Weston OBE and Captain Surgeon Morgan O'Connell. In putting the needs of the Nation, The Army and others before their own, they forgo some of the rights enjoyed by those outside the Armed Forces.So, at the very least, British...