The UK government created Great British Energy to help deliver secure, clean and affordable electricity. Achieving this requires bold, but focused, actions, without burdening GBE with conflicting ...

Child poverty remains a persistent and deeply rooted issue in the UK. In 2022/23 it was estimated that 4.3 million children live in relative poverty, and this number has risen in recent years. Among ...

Industries crucial to Labour’s missions – such as house-building, childcare and rail – are struggling to meet demand Government must address workforce challenges to meet its milestones Fair Pay ...

The director of Scotland’s progressive think tank, IPPR Scotland, has responded to the publication of the Project Willow report. Stephen Boyd Director, IPPR Scotland said: “The Project Willow report ...

Unlike many other comparable countries, the UK’s economic activity and employment rates are yet to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Improvements in population health have stagnated in the UK – a ...

An insight into why we might privilege social justice, over criminal justice Prison does not only impact and harm those who are directly locked up; prisons affect all of us. Yet many of us don’t ...

Regions like the North should have a key role to play in the development of a green industrial strategy. The government’s ongoing development of an industrial strategy provides an opportune moment to ...

As the number of maternal breadwinners continues to rise across Europe, this report compares the demographics of this phenomenon both across the continent and in Britain and Germany specifically, ...

The UK economy has had a split personality since the Great Recession, combining a record-strong labour market with historically low productivity growth. A solution to this ‘productivity puzzle’ has so ...

This in-depth case study report presents the findings from new research into the causes, processes and effects of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK. Taking a 'whole of journey' approach, it ...

After three years of a Conservative-led Coalition government, Tim Bale asks what is left of the modernisation of the Tory party and who among its leading lights might carry the torch for party ...