Karl Williams

Karl Williams is Research Director at the Centre for Policy Studies.

06 Sep 2021

Health

Karl Williams

The latest top-down NHS reform is based on faith, not evidence

It’s taken a long time for the public to come round to the idea that maybe, just maybe, the Tories aren’t out to get the NHS. Persuading people of that fact is arguably one of Boris Johnson’s great personal achievements as Conservative leader. True, the Tories are never likely to be seen as ‘the party […]

01 Jul 2021

Coronavirus

Karl Williams

Net Zero by 2050 may be the law, but we still have no idea how much it will cost

Not since Churchill promised victory over Germany in his ‘blood, toil, tears and sweat’ speech of May 1940 has the UK set itself a more expensive or ambitious policy goal. The initial, official cost estimates for getting to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 range from £1.5 to £2.1 trillion. That equates to […]

Karl Williams

Articles

The latest top-down NHS reform is based on faith, not evidence

Net Zero by 2050 may be the law, but we still have no idea how much it will cost