Former Treasury Minister Lord Jim O’Neill leads calls for transformative ‘Great Northern Rail’ investment. A decade of broken promises has been laid bare today as a leading think tank reveals how the ...

UK households are impatient for change. Trust in our political system is low and that’s reflected in scepticism across the board that government can make things better. The sense that the public both ...

Workers in low autonomy, low skill and non-trade union jobs more likely to be surveilled at work, says IPPR Facial recognition, biometric tracking, and keystroke monitoring adopted without employee ...

Poor polling and local election results for Labour are part of western trend in which populists now claim a larger share of the vote (30 per cent) than the centre-left (24 per cent) David Miliband ...

For decades, governments of all stripes have promised to give children a better, healthier start to life. But despite this – and some notable policy successes – the UK continues to fall short on ...

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 ...

English local government faces major reshaping. England’s new mayors will join a group of highly visible leaders. But large-scale mayoral authorities are unfamiliar in England, and they will need to ...

It’s not every day that a publication by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) sparks an impromptu press conference in Downing Street. But last November the ONS released revised figures showing ...

Widespread public support for stronger government interventions to improve health – challenging 'nanny state' myth and showing it could be a vote-winner, especially in key battleground seats ...

New report calls for publicly-owned clean energy company to be fully funded so it can supply 5 per cent of electricity within five years GBE should generate electricity from its own assets and be able ...

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 ...

Absence and suspensions are two thirds higher (67 per cent) than pre-pandemic For every child permanently excluded, 10 more ‘invisibly’ move out of their school setting New report from IPPR and The ...