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Good Growth Foundation

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Good Growth Foundation

@GoodGrowthFdn

The Good Growth Foundation is a new think tank that campaigns for a fairer economy, so growth can work for good. Director: @prafulnargund

London

goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk

Joined October 2024

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Good Growth Foundation
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Apr 21
Our National Growth Debate is well underway! We’ve heard @Ed_Miliband in conversation with GGF’s @prafulnargund on plans to delink electricity prices from gas, and @darrenpjones speaking to @annemcelvoy about civil service reform, AI, and productivity.
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Good Growth Foundation
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Aug 4, 2025
🚨 In today's @thetimes: Labour MPs are calling on Rachel Reeves to adopt GGF's Rapid Reforms to unlock housebuilding to avoid painful tax rises or spending cuts.
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Good Growth Foundation
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Aug 27, 2025
Light at the end of the tunnel? Reopening Ashford International - a "ghost" station, could deliver up to £2.7 bn in growth over 5 years. New GGF research out *today*, supported by @helenadollimore, @sojanuk, @MikeTappTweets, @tonyvaughanMP & @PollyBLabour in @theipaper👇
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Good Growth Foundation
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Aug 4, 2025
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Our proposals: ✅ Free up fiscal headroom by boosting housebuilding. ✅ Unlock 1.5m homes this parliament. ✅ Deliver up to £4.7bn+ in economic gains. All without new taxes.
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Good Growth Foundation
@GoodGrowthFdn
Sep 1, 2025
Warm congratulations to @Dan4Barnet on becoming Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury. His depth of experience will serve the role well. It was a real pleasure to welcome him to our launch and we look forward to ongoing conversations.
HM Treasury
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Sep 1, 2025
Welcome to @Dan4Barnet who has been appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
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Good Growth Foundation
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Jan 31, 2025
1/ 📢 Our first report with @JLPartnersPolls and input from @chriscurtis94 and @LabourGrowth: We reveal the growth gap - the disconnect between what politicians think good growth looks like and what people actually want. Full report here: goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk/mind-the-growt… 🧵👇
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Mind The Growth Gap — The Good Growth Foundation
What politicians are missing when it comes to growth. Economic growth is the most important mission of this government, and for good reason. Growth is not just a matter of figures on a balance sheet;...
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Good Growth Foundation
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Aug 4, 2025
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Key reforms: 🔹 Scrap the 500-home cap on ministerial approvals. 🔹 Limit council delays by reducing call-in powers. 🔹 Approve mid-size developments (up to 50 homes) in metro areas without lengthy processes. 🔹 Use existing Levelling Up powers to override blocked plans.
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Good Growth Foundation
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Mar 16, 2025
Too often, people who want to work are written off by the welfare system. Most people - including benefit claimants - agree the system needs fixing to help people back into work. Read @cazjwheeler in @thetimes below.
The Times and Sunday Times
@thetimes
Mar 16, 2025
The work and pensions secretary is expected to dilute welfare plan to head off Starmer’s biggest rebellion 🔓 This story is free to read thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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Good Growth Foundation
@GoodGrowthFdn
Jun 17, 2025
Who generates wealth in the UK? GGF director @prafulnargund argues it is as much working class people as it is billion pound enterprises on #PoliticsLive. That's why we campaign for better skills and training - to unlock the potential of the people driving our economy everyday.
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Good Growth Foundation
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Jun 17, 2025
📺 Tune in now to watch GGF's @prafulnargund on #PoliticsLive 📺 @BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics
Jun 17, 2025
On Tuesday's #PoliticsLive Rachael Maskell MP, Labour Sir Alec Shelbrooke MP, Conservative Praful Nargund, Good Growth Foundation Inaya Folarin Iman, Journalist and broadcaster 12:15pm BBC Two bbc.in/4egfoTF
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Good Growth Foundation
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Aug 4, 2025
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With housing central to growth and public services under pressure, the choice is clear: Unlock homes. Unlock growth. Read the full report below.
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Rapid Reforms — The Good Growth Foundation
This Good Growth Foundation report sets out a package of quick, high-impact planning reforms to help the UK meet its target of 1.5 million homes, unlock between £4.7–£5.7 billion in fiscal headroom,...
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Good Growth Foundation
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Aug 20, 2025
🚨 ANNOUNCING: The Good Growth Foundation’s Labour Party Conference programme 🚨 Three days of big ideas, bold debates & practical plans for good growth across the UK. 📅 28-30 Sept, Liverpool Here’s what’s on 👇
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Good Growth Foundation
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Apr 14, 2025
Steel is not a relic of the past - it's the backbone of a modern industrial economy. But with furnaces and jobs at risk, the industry is on its knees. In a guest blog, Advisory Board member @clarkaw sets out what a serious UK steel revival would take 🇬🇧
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Steel is on its knees: How do we revive it? — The Good Growth Foundation
Andrew Clark, member of the Good Growth Foundation’s advisory board and former UK Head of Communications at Liberty Steel.
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Good Growth Foundation
@GoodGrowthFdn
Jan 29, 2025
The countdown begins! ⏳ The Good Growth team is gearing up for our launch this evening in the @HouseofCommons. We are delighted to be joined by @wesstreeting, @jamesmurray_ldn, @Dan4Barnet, @chriscurtis94 and @helenadollimore Heres GGF team @FyfeStoica setting up the mic
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