Edward Wild

MOVING! Former Attorney General @VictoriaPrentis gives a brilliant speech summarising her views watching the Lords assisted suicide debates while receiving cancer treatment: contrary to what is claimed, scrutiny has been impressive & concerns have come from many Peers not a few.

🗣️ We are delighted to announce that @DanielJHannan will be joining us as our new Director General. "The IEA set Britain free. When it was founded in 1955, there was a consensus in favour of high spending, industrial management and economic planning. Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon showed people what was wrong with those ideas, and thus unleashed the genius of our nation. We face a similar challenge today. Public spending and taxation are higher now than they were in 1955. We are back to the fatal conceit, the idea that politicians, bureaucrats and planners know best. Just like the IEA's founders, we need to change people's minds, to open people's eyes. The route to national prosperity, now as then, is through deregulation, free trade, sound money and low spending. It's not just the politicians we need to convince; it's not even primarily the politicians. When voters understand the case for smaller government, MPs follow. I am so grateful to every one of my predecessors, from Ralph Harris, who inspired me as a teenager, to David Frost, whom I am proud to call my friend. They kept the flame burning. Now it is time to heap up the fire." — Lord Hannan of Kingsclere, incoming Director General of the IEA, from 1 June 2026.

We are pleased to announce that Liz Peace CBE has been reappointed by the King to continue her work as Chair of Trustees at CCT. Alongside Liz, Ms Sally Jane Watson, MA, and Mr Andrew Morgan, BEng, CEng, FIMechE, ChPP, FAPM are joining the board: visitchurches.org.uk/what-we-do/new…