Melisa Tourt

Melisa Tourt is Communications and Digital Manager at the Centre for Policy Studies.

Articles

Immigration

We have given up on choosing who can live here

When Britain decides to admit someone as an immigrant, it’s making a deliberate choice about who deserves the privilege of living here. That choice should be based on clear benefits to the country and existing residents – logically, people who improve our situation, not maintain the status quo. Yet a recent New Statesman piece treats […]

Economics

Equal pay claims are a fiscal timebomb

In 1988, Julie Hayward, a canteen cook at Cammell Laird shipyards, won a decade-long legal battle to be paid the same as the yard’s painters and joiners. This landmark case established a curious principle in British law: that jobs bearing no resemblance to one another could be deemed of ‘equal value’ by tribunals and courts. […]

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