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 report is a serious and thoughtful analysis of what is and isn’t working in Scotland’s economic development eco-system. On Monday I was fortunate enough to attend the launch of the report ...

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

Once the bill receives royal assent it will, overnight, substantially improve trade unions’ ability to access and organise ...

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

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

Families face SEND vicious cycle as EHCPs are seen as the only means of securing support Children left waiting as less than half of EHCPs issued within 20-week legal limit, with thousands waiting over ...

A quarter of employees feel pressure to drink at workplace events, rising to 38 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds Workplace drinking culture driving absences as 31 per cent of workers call in sick in ...

The Bank of England increased its interest rates over recent years, aimed at reducing inflation. But this has also had an unintended effect on the Bank of England’s massive government bond buying – ...

A key priority for the government’s upcoming child poverty strategy should be to remove the two-child limit and scrap the household benefit cap. These measures would cost around £3 billion and, while ...

Scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap would lift 500,000 children out of poverty Fairer gambling taxes could raise the £3.2 billion needed to fully fund this, finds IPPR Tax changes would ...