New analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that a combination of welfare reforms, rising numbers of children in the private rented sector and a lack of investment in ...

The UK is facing a precarious and volatile period for global trade. The volume of global goods flows is back on the rise after a difficult 2023 caused by inflation and interest rate hikes. But with ...

Responding to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill introduced to Parliament today, Marley Morris, associate director for migration at IPPR, said: “Today’s borders bill signals the end of ...

In the long run, the only way to end the UK's chronic housing crisis is to build many more homes. But are Britain's big builders willing and able to deliver the new houses we need? In this report, we ...

Two in three voters who switched from Conservative to Labour at the election (64 per cent) are positive towards EVs, but Conservative to Reform switchers hold consistently anti-EV views Policies such ...

IPPR has reacted to Rachel Reeves’s speech, Harry Quilter Pinner, executive director of IPPR, said: “Rachel Reeves is right to say Britain’s economy has huge ...

This report presents a fresh, place-based approach to rural policy that addresses local, national and global issues effectively, and recommends the introduction of ‘rural devolution deals’ that would ...

The bus services bill is an opportunity to ensure reform really means thriving, green 21 st century local bus networks in England. The government’s bus services bill focusses on a five-point plan: ...

Over the past few days and weeks, there has been lots of rather histrionic commentary about the UK’s economic situation as if the budget has created an economic disaster from which we’ll never recover ...

‘There’s a lot of people in the EU who supply gaps in the service industries, the land workers … fantastic work ethic … lovely people … There’s a lot of rubbish talked about benefits and the fact ...

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 ...

The leading think tank for the north of England has responded to the Chancellor’s plan for growth speech. Zoë Billingham, Director of IPPR North said: “The Chancellor’s laser focus on growing the ...