Laurence Fredricks

🚨NEW: Britain needs a new kind of housing. Our cities are unaffordable and locking young professionals out. @ukonward’s new report, Towering Ambitions, makes the case for Purpose Built Young Professional Accommodation (PBYPA). A deregulated, market-led fix. 🏙️ ukonward.com/reports/toweri…

For the benefit of more abundant, better housing, it is clear we need rapid reform for more projects like this to begin, and to deliver more homes more quickly. More on how to get this done in London specifically v soon!!

Yet as pointed out in the article, delivery remains slow. Legal challenges and layer after layer of planning including national planning policy guidance, the London Plan, and Southwark’s local plan all pull in different and the same directions simultaneously.

The Aylesbury Estate casts a brutalist shadow over my London neighbourhood. Delays are a waste of potential: its regeneration will deliver an additional 1500 homes and replace existing stock with better, safer homes. The planning system must expedite these projects for impact.

Plotting some big changes… Check out our proposal to make land readjustment work in the UK, written by the fantastic @PMArslanagic

The government spends over *£10 billion* a year on welfare benefits outside of Universal Credit. Come to our event on 17th March with @FraserNelson, @Helen_Whately, @LanaHempsall and @CarolineElsom to join us in discussing how this sprawling and complicated system developed and what should be done about it. Sign up on the link in the threaded tweet.

The crisis in Iran & Middle East is causing the beginnings of a gas spike. This is because Britain is highly reliant on imports of liquid natural gas (LNG). This is - in part- because we don’t have sufficient domestic supply to meet our needs. 1/

Britain has among the highest industrial energy costs in the world, while domestic bills drive inflation and harm living standards. New @ukonward research today shows how a third of our household bill costs come from policy choices. We set out the options to bring bills down👇

It's fine that you don't breastfeed. It's fine that your children watch TV. It's fine that your children share a bedroom. If we want people to carry on becoming parents, then it's important that we avoid putting unnecessary and escalating pressure on mums and dads. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/0…

It’s a £10 billion scandal. @ukonward has investigated the extra payments that welfare claimants can receive because of their eligibility for their regular benefits, known as passported benefits. For the first time, we reveal the shocking cost - and how it disincentivises work.

We are Build for Britain - the Centre-Right Campaign for Housebuilding. We exist to: 1. Build More Homes 2. Put Working Families First 3. Make Homeownership a Reality for the Next Generation.

Earlier this year, myself and @LRFredricks wrote for @ukonward about the scandal of how few permanent driving bans are handed out to those who kill or seriously injure others with their cars. This is a problem that @lfg_uk have also repeatedly highlighted. ukonward.com/reports/cleare…

NEW: Peter Doyle, the man who intentionally drove into a crowd of people earlier this year, has NOT been banned from driving for life. In May, Doyle drove straight into fans at the Liverpool victory parade. Accelerating, he crushed prams and ran over adults and children in a fit of uncontrolled road rage. He hit over 100 people. But the judge in this case has decided not to ban Doyle from driving for life, in order to help with his "rehabilitation". He will be able to drive again just 3 years after his release from prison. Surely it's obvious that Doyle (who bit off a man's ear in his youth and clearly has serious impulse control issues) should never be allowed to drive again?

For @WorksInProgMag, I argue South Korea's ultra-low birth rates are down to policy and cultural choices. 1. South Korea waged a long-running population control campaign that successfully averted around 2 million births (not fully abandoned until the 1990s).

Absolutely delighted to announce Lord Banner KC as the latest Senior Fellow at @ukonward! Charlie is one of the most distinguished legal minds in the whole housing and planning sector and is a great advocate for @consyimby.

🚨 A major new report is out today from Onward Corner - Permission to Learn ‼️The UK risks becoming a consumer of AI innovation developed abroad: its data used elsewhere, its companies and researchers relocating, and its economy missing out on billions ukonward.com/wp-content/upl…

OBR forecasts "a steady long-term rise in rents"

Onward responds to the Budget.