A Common Sense Review of 2025:
Common Sense Policy Group Annual Report

2025 was a year of rapid growth for the Common Sense Policy Group. Our report details activity and impact across almost all areas of public policy. Our key outputs include:

• Our flagship book Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything, rated 4* internally for REF.
• 18 peer-reviewed journal articles published.
• 5 major CSPG policy reports directly engaging with government fiscal decisions, democratic reform and proposing a major pilot of Basic Income in Greater Manchester.
• £858k in funded research projects, including two-year NIHR project on welfare reform.
• National and international media presence including The Guardian, LBC and Times Radio.
• Direct parliamentary impact via lobbying of MPs on welfare, disability and budgets.
• 2 REF Impact Case Studies based on Act Now and Basic Income.
• Growing consultancy work for government lobbying.

This underpinning research activity, combined with carefully targeted policymaker engagement is gradually changing the way in which politicians evaluate assumptions about what is feasible, affordable and popular.

2026 promises to be our most promising year yet, with 2 new books, 15 peer-reviewed articles and direct engagement with leading politicians under way.

With genuine opportunities for change emerging, we are proud that our long-held position on what is common sense is increasingly be shared by those with the ability to rebuild Britain.