The size of the fiscal gap is uncertain but could plausibly be in the region of £20 to £30 billion – and this is before the ...

Given continued fiscal pressures, the chancellor will have to raise taxes in the autumn budget. Attention is on Britain’s ...

The autumn budget is the government’s chance to respond with attention-grabbing policies, showing it will be fighting on side ...

Founded on progressive values, the centre will develop thinking on how the UK can navigate today’s rapidly changing global ...

This book calls for a new kind of delivery model for people with complex needs who live in deprived neighbourhoods. There is a significant gap in services for people with complex needs. People with ...

IPPR executive director Harry Quilter-Pinner reacts to the spending review.

The stakes for a government are rarely higher than at a budget. With the Autumn Budget on the horizon, the Chancellor faces a multitude of difficult choices amongst a challenging economic context. As ...

Liberal democracy across the West is under strain. The causes of these democratic challenges are many and complex but there is a common thread: a decline in political trust. Growing distrust in ...

In July and August 2025, Gordon Brown, the Social Market Foundation (SMF) and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) ...

The UK’s competition framework — and its regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority — has struggled to prevent rising market concentration and stagnant productivity. At the same time, the UK ...

The number of deaths that could have been avoided with timely healthcare or public health interventions is much higher in the UK than in all other comparable European nations. This is down to a wide ...