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The '''Taxpayers' Alliance''' (TPA) is a right-wing single-issue think tank and lobbying group advocating "lower taxes and reformed public services". On 19 September 2007, the Hayek Society, a LSE right-wing group, circulated a job description to its members for a internships at TPA. | The '''Taxpayers' Alliance''' (TPA) is a right-wing single-issue think tank and lobbying group advocating "lower taxes and reformed public services". On 19 September 2007, the Hayek Society, a LSE right-wing group, circulated a job description to its members for a internships at TPA. | ||
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| + | In a March 2009 presentation TPA Chief Executive [[Matthew Elliott]] and [[Tim Montgomerie]] described IEA as part of the infrastructure of the [[Movement Conservatism|conservative movement]] in Britain.<ref>Tim Montgomerie, [http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/03/the-growth-of-b.html The growth of Britain's conservative movement], ConservativeHome, 14 March 2009.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 01:30, 9 March 2010
The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) is a right-wing single-issue think tank and lobbying group advocating "lower taxes and reformed public services". On 19 September 2007, the Hayek Society, a LSE right-wing group, circulated a job description to its members for a internships at TPA.
In a March 2009 presentation TPA Chief Executive Matthew Elliott and Tim Montgomerie described IEA as part of the infrastructure of the conservative movement in Britain.[1]
Contents
Personnel
Founders
- Andrew Allum Chairman
- Matthew Elliott Chief Executive
- Florence Heath
Staff
- Tim Aker Grassroots Coordinator
- Blair Gibbs Campaign Director
- Fiona McEvoy West Midlands Campaign Agent
- Matthew Sinclair Policy Analyst
- Corin Taylor Research Director
Academic Advisory Council
- John Blundell – Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs
- Keith Marsden – Economic Consultant, United Nations
- David B. Smith – Chief Economist, Williams de Broe
- Norman Barry – University of Buckingham
- Keith Boyfield – Keith Boyfield Associates
- Eamonn Butler – Adam Smith Institute
- Tim Congdon – Lombard Street Research
- Stephen Davies – Manchester Metropolitan University
- Kevin Dowd – University of Nottingham
- Charles Hanson – Economic Consultant
- Ruth Lea – Centre for Policy Studies
- Patrick Minford – Cardiff Business School
- Kenneth Minogue – London School of Economics
- Michael Mosbacher – Social Affairs Unit
- Dennis O'Keeffe – University of Buckingham
- Madsen Pirie – Adam Smith Institute
- Gabriel Stein – Lombard Street Research
- Elaine Sternberg – University of Leeds
- James Tooley – University of Newcastle
- Alan Walters
Volunteers
- Source[2]
Affiliations
External Resources
- Sunder Katwala, Taxpayers alliance outed as conservative partisans (surprise, sensation!), Next Left, 15 March 2009.
References, Resources and Contact
Contact
- Website: tpa.typepad.com
References
- ↑ Tim Montgomerie, The growth of Britain's conservative movement, ConservativeHome, 14 March 2009.
- ↑ Taxpayers' Alliance Who we are, accessed 20 September 2007
