Dr Radomir Tylecote: Managing Director
Radomir was Special Adviser to Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP as Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, then Business Secretary.
Previously at the Legatum Institute and Institute of Economic Affairs he published some of the most influential think-tank publications in the last decade.
Radomir co-authored the book Plan A+: creating a prosperous post-Brexit UK, lauded as the pro-sovereignty Brexiteer alternative to the Chequers White Paper, which planned regulatory alignment with the EU.
The most publicised think-tank release in British history and launched live on two TV channels, the book announced the return of Britain as a free-trade nation: described by the Telegraph as having “moved the centre of gravity in the Conservative Party” and by one cabinet minister as “vital to the course of Brexit history”. Boris Johnson quoted from Plan A+ in his first speech as Prime Minister on Britain’s new course as an independent, free-trading nation. The book was also the subject of an eighteen-month campaign of illegal censorship by a major regulator, which has since apologised and the episode has become a test-case in the modern suppression of free speech.
His other publications include Inadvertently Arming China?: The Chinese military complex and its potential exploitation of scientific research at UK universities. This investigation into the funding of British university research centres by Chinese military-linked organisations demonstrated for the first time their research outputs in military-applicable fields. Making international front-page news, the paper was the subject of a major BBC documentary.
Radomir is a regular public speaker and often published in the Telegraph, Express, Spectator and elsewhere. He has been a speech-writer to a foreign former Prime Minister and is a co-founder of the Free Speech Union and author of numerous other books and papers whose proposals have become conservative policy, including, with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Raising the Roof: how to solve the United Kingdom’s housing crisis, on how the free-market can unleash beautiful housebuilding for everyone.
He has an MPhil from Cambridge University and a double-scholarship quantitative PhD from Imperial College London.
External Media and Publications
The Tories aren’t victims of the Blob. It’s a monster of their own making
(Telegraph – May 2023)
Britain’s online censorship bill
(The Critic – April 2021)
The Online Safety Bill is an assault on free speech
(Spiked – April 2021)
Time to take on the thoughtpolice
(Spiked – March 2021)
An Orwellian Society: Non-Crime Hate Incidents and the policing of speech
(FSU Paper – February 2021)
The totalitarian creep of hate-speech laws
(Spiked – February 2021)
Censoring anti-vaxxers would be a terrible own goal
(Spiked – December 2020)
An English Hate Crime Bill
(FSU Briefing – November 2020)
The Law Commission’s totalitarian vision
(Spiked – November 2020)
A chilling new bill risks putting the British state above the law
(CAPX – October 2020)
Why the Government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech
(FSU Briefing – September 2020)
Censorship is the greatest ‘online harm’
(Spiked – September 2020)
Coronavirus: Imagine if the state could respond like this all the time (with Douglas Carswell)
(CityAM – April 2020)
Covid is a symptom of the age of China
(The Critic – March 2020)
Time to fight the power: how we should reform the civil service (with Douglas Carswell)
(CityAM – March 2020)
Why a new British strategy for China is crucial
(CapX – December 2019)
Why is there more intellectual freedom in Bucharest than Cambridge?
(Spectator – November 2019)
The housing crisis is a symptom of our dysfunctional government
(CapX – Oct 2019)
The fall of ancient Athens shows how vital it is for Brexit Britain to restore its freedoms
(Telegraph – July 2019)
A bold new plan to renew home ownership in Britain
(CapX – July 2019)
The EU is quietly seizing control of its members’ finances
(Telegraph – February 2019)
Behind Closed Doors – the EU has abolished the little democratic oversight it had
(Brexit Central – February 2019)
Mrs May’s Brexit deal risks giving the EU power to ruin the UK’s ability to compete
(Telegraph – January 2019)
No-deal Brexit could be the deal-making opportunity of a generation
(Telegraph – December 2018)
The IEA’s Plan A+ would ensure the UK doesn’t blow the great prize of Brexit
(Brexit Central – September 2018)
CapX Best of 2018: To make Britain richer, make Britain beautiful
(CapX – Aug 2018)
Regulatory autonomy from the EU is vital for independence and growth
(Brexit Central – July 2018)
Ministers will blow the Brexit opportunity of a lifetime if they embrace zombie ideas on customs and regulation
(Telegraph – July 2018)
What MPs need to know about trade policy before voting on the EU Withdrawal Bill (with Shanker Singham)
(Brexit Central – June 2018)
Remainers cannot call themselves liberal while they try to preserve the EU’s control
(Telegraph – May 2018)