About Dan Corry
Dan Corry is a leading economics and public policy expert. He worked at Downing Street from 2007-2010 where he was head of the No 10 Policy Unit and then the PM's senior adviser on the economy. Dan has also worked as a special adviser, been director of the New Local Government Network and was senior economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a former director at FTI Consulting, and is CEO of New Philanthropy Capital.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s plans to encourage more John Lewis style companies will only get us so far. He needs to be more radical and consider greater worker participation within firms Read more
Social investment could help charities and voluntary organisations through the tough times ahead. But only if they know what they’re taking on
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The chattering classes tend to get much more excited by the personality clashes at party conferences than by the politics Read more
Many people now assume that the Labour government allowed the financial markets to function without regulatory interference as a result of a Faustian pact. But this is simplistic and ignores the enormous amount that Blair and Brown achieved economically Read more
Only 1 per cent of the population earn enough to pay the 50p top tax rate. So why all the fuss? Read more
It seems that Blairite ‘sofa government’ has been transformed into coalition ‘telephone government’, with policy decisions made during Sunday night calls between David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Surely, there’s a better way Read more
For years the Tories used to criticise the way Gordon Brown and Labour went about the run up to the Budget with the pre-briefings, helpful leaks and mood manipulation (lower expectations and then over-deliver). This we were told was the work of characters like Charlie Whelan and Damien McBride. Read more...
Conservative commentators are licking their lips at the thought of Ed Balls as shadow chancellor. Here are Labour’s supposed economic failures on the economy, the deficit and financial regulation all beautifully personified. Read more...
Public spending cuts are speeding in one, apparently inevitable, direction. But if the economy worsens, should the coalition go into reverse gear? Read more...
The demise of social housing administrators Connaught appears to be partly due to a variety of internal management decisions, that in retrospect look at least questionable. But the company have also pointed the finger at the public sector cutbacks. Read more...
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