All articles written by John Penrose MP on PoliticsHome.com

09 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

Our high streets and town centres need a new lease of life

Tomorrow’s high street won’t be the same as it is today. What will it look like instead?

03 Aug 2020 Education

Let’s open up opportunities in education to deliver the biggest boost for pupil-power in generations

Publishing graduate employment rates and average salaries would boost the quality of education and standardised university grades would show which university courses added the most value.

22 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Treating trains like planes would revolutionise our railways

Railway licensing isn’t a bold, radical or exciting alternative, but a rebadged version of franchising, or nationalization-lite, but with the same faults.

08 Feb 2017 Communities

Allowing developers to build 'Up Not Out' could help solve the housing crisis

The way to solve the housing crisis is to reduce planning restrictions on urban property owners, allowing them to build up to the level of other buildings in the same block, argues John Penrose MP.

21 Oct 2016 Brexit

How to get better standards of living, higher productivity, and an economy that works for everyone

Former Conservative minister John Penrose writes for PoliticsHome lays out the opportunities for the UK following Brexit.