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CentreForum is an independent, liberal think-tank based in Westminster, London, and was formerly known as the Centre for Reform. Many prominent Liberal Democrat politicians are involved with the think tank including the current Deputy Prime Minister Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Schools Minister Rt Hon David Laws MP, Business Secretary Dr Vince Cable MP and former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown. However, it is independent from the party and its board members include the Labour Party MP Natascha Engel, Labour Peer Lord Adonis, Conservative MPs David Willetts and Nick Boles as well as several prominent journalists and academics. == Publications == Amongst CentreForum's publications is 'Britain After Blair', in which senior Lib Dem politicians gave their view on a liberal direction for the policy brief they covered at the time in the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet. Although not party policy, the then Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Menzies Campbell wrote a foreword to the volume. The book is the successor to the controversial Orange Book which advocated classical liberal solutions to current social policy issues. Other publications of CentreForum include 'Globalisation: a liberal response', 'Climbing the ladder: how can Britain become more socially mobile?', 'Open universities: a funding strategy for higher education' and 'A balancing act: fair solutions to a modern debt crisis'〔()〕 These publications highlight CentreForum's combination of both economic and social liberalism. In recent times CentreForum has published work on how to improve the working of higher education reform,〔()〕 social housing〔()〕 and alternative approaches to tackling crime .〔()〕 Since the formation of the coalition government in May 2010, which includes Liberal Democrat ministers in government for the first time since the Second World War, several of CentreForum's ideas have been adopted as government policy. Most notable are the idea of a pupil premium in education and the use of community land auctions as part of the government's localism agenda. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CentreForum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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