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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">when the UK’s new chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced a raft of tax cuts for high earners last week in his mini-budget, the response from the markets was damning. The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since decimalisation, and the cost of government borrowing jumped sharply.</font></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the announcements were cheered on by a group of secretive think tanks closely connected to Liz Truss and her advisers. After years of lobbying, a Conservative government had finally adopted their proposals to scrap the top rate of income tax, remove the cap on bankers’ bonuses, shelve a planned rise in corporation tax, and pledge a fresh crackdown on unions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Adam Smith Institute,</b> where Truss’s political secretary Sophie Jarvis was head of government affairs, <a href="https://www.adamsmith.org/news/the-adam-smith-institute-responds-to-the-chancellors-mini-budget" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">said</a> the plans were “a welcome first step to getting the British economy back on track”.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The mood was particularly buoyant at the <b>Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA</b>), whose director general Mark Littlewood greeted the announcement by <a href="https://iea.org.uk/media/iea-responds-to-mini-budget-statement/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">claiming</a>: “This isn’t a trickle-down budget – it’s a boost-up budget."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">truss and Kwarteng have faced accusations that their proposals are inspired by ‘trickle-down economics’, a term for a set of policies adopted by the former US president Ronald Reagan that cut taxes for the richest in the belief that wealth would then filter down to the poorest. The theory has been discredited <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2016/12/31/Causes-and-Consequences-of-Income-Inequality-A-Global-Perspective-42986" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">by both the International Monetary Fund</a> and <a href="https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-gjpw-1v31" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz</a>.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">None of the think tanks discloses its funders, but the IEA has received donations from <a href="https://www.desmog.com/institute-economic-affairs/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">BP and ExxonMobil</a> and, along with the Adam Smith Institute and the Centre for Policy Studies, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/adam-smith-institute/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">the tobacco industry</a>. The IEA and the Adam Smith Institute have also <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/think-tanks-adam-smith-policy-exchange-legatum-iea-taxpayers-alliance-climate-denial/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">received millions of dollars from US funders of climate denial</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later, speaking at a post-budget briefing, Littlewood was asked by journalists if he was anxious about his policies being put to the test.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We don't write policy ideas just for them to sit on the shelf – we write them in the hope that one day they're enacted,” he said. But he also admitted that: “If it turns out that these don’t work, I think the IEA has got a lot of hard thinking to do.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tim Montgomerie, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, <a href="https://twitter.com/montie/status/1573238591496634370?s=46&t=hkoeHmoAp9gZwAsVjmTEnw" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">wrote on Twitter</a> that the budget was a “massive moment for the IEA”. “They’ve been advocating these policies for years,” he said. “They incubated Truss and Kwarteng during their early years as MPs. Britain is now their laboratory.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Truss is particularly close to the IEA, having founded its parliamentary wing FREER in 2011 and hired its former communications director Ruth Porter to run her campaign, later rewarding her by <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/team-truss-downing-street-cabinet/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">making her deputy chief of staff</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <b>Taxpayers’ Alliance</b>, which once shared a Westminster office with the IEA, <a href="https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/budget_analysis_faster_growth_now_estimated_to_raise_gdp_by_almost_100_billion_over_a_decade" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">predicted</a> that the budget would boost economic output by £99bn over the next ten years and said it was the “most taxpayer-friendly budget in recent memory.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The economic projections were produced in collaboration with another think tank, Europe Economics. Andrew Lilco, the organisation’s executive director, <a href="https://leftfootforward.org/2022/09/economist-who-backs-liz-truss-says-i-dont-care-about-equality-issues-i-have-no-interest-in-equality/" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">was later asked</a> to respond to criticism that the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">budget would benefit the rich more than the poor in an interview on Sky News. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I have no interest in equality. I think it’s an incorrect policy objective. I don’t think it’s morally or economically sound as a policy objective,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Centre for Policy Studies</span>, a think tank co-founded by former Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher, also claimed credit for many of the policies announced in Kwarteng’s budget.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Clougherty,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> its ‘head of tax’, said on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOl-uCXq2g" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">IEA’s podcast</a> earlier this week that: “I think that frankly both the overall message and the specific announcements contained within [the mini-budget] are fantastic. Exactly what we would have hoped for and what people like us have been calling for for a long time.</span>”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reaction from the markets and financial institutions has been in stark contrast to the celebratory rhetoric from Truss’s allies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund issued a stinging rebuke of the government’s tax cuts and called on the prime minister to reconsider them to prevent increasing inequality. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The United Nations fund, which monitors the international monetary system to identify risks and recommend economic policies, said the budget could undermine efforts to tackle already rampant inflation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>With turmoil continuing since Friday, the Bank of England was forced to step in to calm the markets. The same day, the bank announced it would buy £65bn of government bonds over the next fortnight as fears grew that pension funds could be affected. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former Bank of England governor Mark Carney later accused the government of “undercutting” financial institutions and said its tax-cutting measures were “working at some cross-purposes” with the bank.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speculation that the central bank will now increase interest rates to nearly 6% has prompted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/sep/27/uk-mortgage-deals-pulled-pound-rate-rise" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">nearly 300 mortgage deals to be pulled by lenders</a>. Millions of existing mortgage holders could now also <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/27/economy/uk-mortgage-rate-increase/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: inherit; text-underline-position: under; line-height: 1.47; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;">face huge hikes to their monthly repayments</a>.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Centre for Policy Studies</font></strong></h2><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background</font></strong></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.cps.org.uk/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Centre for Policy Studies (<span class="caps" style="">CPS</span>)</a> is a free-market organisation founded by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher in 1974, promoting an ideology of small state and economic liberalism.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the Centre claims to be non-partisan, historically it is heavily linked to the Conservative party, and has been an influence on British politics since the 1970s.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Stance on Climate Change</font></strong></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span class="caps" style="">CPS</span> released a publication in March, 2007 entitled ‘<a href="https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/111027171941-20070227EnergyClimateChange.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Change: a guide to the scientific uncertainties</a>’, in which they state that:</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 36pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The scientific understanding of climate change is far from complete (despite claims to the contrary).”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The document outlines the organisation’s belief that the science behind Climate Change is too uncertain for policy action, and policy should prioritise energy security over reducing carbon emissions. The <span class="caps" style="">CPS</span> state that the climate is constantly changing, and that the science behind the attribution of Climate Change to human activity is far from settled.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Deeds</font></strong></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February, 2017</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with Civitas, and the Institute of Economic Affairs (<span class="caps" style="">IEA</span>), the Centre for Policy Studies received the lowest possible score from independent watchdog Transparify in its latest <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e1f399e4b06a94c0cdaa41/t/58996330b8a79b6ede1c9891/1486447414103/Transparify+-++Think+Tank+Transparency+in+the+UK+2017.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">transparency ratings</a>, as <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2017/02/08/opaque-and-deceptive-think-tanks-spend-millions-pushing-brexit-and-climate-science-misinformation" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported by DeSmog <span class="caps" style="">UK</span></a>. The score referred to levels of transparency in expenditure and funding sources, and the report by Transparify included <span class="caps" style="">CPA</span> in a list of seven “<a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2017/02/08/opaque-and-deceptive-think-tanks-spend-millions-pushing-brexit-and-climate-science-misinformation" style="text-decoration-line: none;">highly opaque and deceptive think tanks in Britain that take money from hidden hands behind closed doors</a>”.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeSmog <span class="caps" style="">UK</span> previously revealed how the <span class="caps" style="">CPS</span>, <span class="caps" style="">IEA</span>, and Civitas operate as part of a network of organisations based around Westminter's <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2016/06/13/mapped-cosy-relationship-climate-euro-sceptic-bubble-55-tufton-street-brexit-less-climate-action" style="text-decoration-line: none;">55 Tufton Street</a> that pushed for the <span class="caps" style="">UK</span> to leave the <span class="caps" style="">EU</span> while spreading climate science misinformation.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September, 2017</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A new pro-Brexit think tank called The <a href="http://www.ifreetrade.org/about" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Institute for Free Trade</a> (<span class="caps" style="">IFT</span>)</span> was launched, to be sharing an office at 57 Tufton Street with the Centre for Policy Studies.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The president of the <span class="caps" style="">IFT</span> is Tory <span class="caps" style="">MP</span> <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2016/12/07/millennials-regulations-hamper-trade-deal-success-brexiteer-tells-climate-denying-heritage-foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Daniel Hannan</a>, who previously spoke at an event hosted by <span class="caps" style="">US</span>’s <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heritage Foundation</a>, a known anti-environmental group. This represents another link in the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2016/06/13/mapped-cosy-relationship-climate-euro-sceptic-bubble-55-tufton-street-brexit-less-climate-action" style="text-decoration-line: none;">network of connections </a>between the <span class="caps" style="">UK</span>’s pro-Brexit figures and <span class="caps" style="">US</span> climate science deniers.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August, 2016</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/for-the-cheapest-energy-we-must-go-for-gas-ndpb2qpg5" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">an article</a> for <em>The Times,</em> <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/matt-ridley" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Matt Ridley</a> cited a Centre for Policy Studie</span>s publication authored by <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/rupert-darwall" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rupert Darwall</a> claiming that renewable subsidies were harming the <span class="caps" style="">UK</span> energy market. The <span class="caps" style="">CPS</span> <a href="https://www.cps.org.uk/search/?q=darwall&image.x=0&image.y=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">regularly publishes work</a> by climate science denier Rupert Darwall. Matt Ridley is an advisor to the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/global-warming-policy-foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation (<span class="caps" style="">GWPF</span>)</a>, a well known climate science denial organisation.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June, 2016</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lord Howard Stanley Kalms, director of the Centre for Policy Studies between 1991 and 2001, donated <a href="http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Donations/C0243561" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">£10,000 to the Vote Leave campaign</a>, bringing his total donations to the group to £40,000.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kalms’ link to the Vote Leave group serves to further display the network of connections between pro-Brexit lobby groups and climate science denial, as DeSmog <span class="caps" style="">UK</span> <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2016/07/15/updated-brexit-climate-deniers-network-expands-cabinet-reshuffle" style="text-decoration-line: none;">has previously mapped</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March, 2007</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Centre for Policy Studies publishes ‘<a href="https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/111027171941-20070227EnergyClimateChange.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Climate Change: a guide to the scientific uncertainties</em></a><em>’</em>, a document that downplays the issue of anthropogenic climate change and claims that the science behind it is not settled. Within it, the group describe international climate policy such as the Kyoto Protocol as “<a href="https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/111027171941-20070227EnergyClimateChange.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">punishment</a>”.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The author of the document was Martin Livermore, who is on the advisory board of the Scientific Alliance, a climate science denial group.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September, 2006</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Then Director of <span class="caps" style="">CPS</span>, Ruth Lea suggested <a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2006/09/19/the-smoke-behind-the-deniers-fire-3/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">in a letter to <em>The Telegraph</em></a> that we need not worry about Climate Change, since the last time the climate changed it gave rise to civilisation. 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