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Article: Free-market lobbyists blazed a right-wing trail
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1995
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JOHN RENTOUL
Political Correspondent
John Redwood's new think-tank pushes itself on to a crowded
Westminster scene.
The Centre for Policy Studies, on which the Conservative 2000
Foundation is modelled, triggered a vogue for free- market
think-tanks when it was set up by Keith Joseph and Margaret
Thatcher in 1974. The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), derided
by journalists as cranky, came in from the wilderness and the Adam
Smith Institute (ASI), whose founder Dr Madsen Pirie was pilloried
as "Dr Mad", was set up in 1978.
It took a long time for liberal and left-wing derision to turn
into imitation. The left-leaning Institute for Public Policy
Research was set up by Kinnockites, ...