Dan Corry

About Dan Corry

Dan Corry is a leading economics and public policy expert. He is chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital, a think-tank and consultancy dedicated to transforming the third sector. He worked at Downing Street from 2007 to 2010 where he was head of the Number 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 of FTI Consulting.

Two Eds are better than one, by Dan Corry

28 January 2011 | Dan Corry

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...

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When the brakes come off, by Dan Corry

7 October 2010 | Dan Corry

Public spending cuts are speeding in one, apparently inevitable, direction. But if the economy worsens, should the coalition go into reverse gear? Read more...

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Connaught’s collapse: sign of the times? by Dan Corry

8 September 2010 | Dan Corry

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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Committee politics, coalition style, by Dan Corry

31 August 2010 | Dan Corry

So, thanks to the early birth of the new Cameron child, Nick Clegg looks set to stay in the government hot seat for a little while longer. He will be hoping that the young guns at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, having worked through August to show that the first Coalition Budget was not in fact progressive, now take a bit of a break. Read more...

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Value judgements, by Dan Corry

10 June 2010 | Dan Corry

A government’s ability to respond quickly to economic shocks depends on its basic beliefs. This might be a problem in a coalition holding very different views Read more...

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