Improving children’s health has been a priority for decades. Yet, despite billions of pounds of investment and countless ...

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

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 ...

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

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

IPPR has one of the largest news and media profiles of any UK think tank, with our experts appearing regularly on national and international media. You can see our latest press releases below, or use ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented disruption to schools and learners in England. There has been significant focus on ‘recovering’ the existing system but there is also an ...

This policy paper sets out a mechanism for improving the progressivity, efficiency and revenue raising potential of income taxes in the UK. It proposes a major reform of the current system, with two ...

2022 was another tumultuous year for the North, and for levelling up. Severe regional inequalities endure despite government claiming it remains committed to the levelling up agenda. The government’s ...

Two years on from the UK government’s promise to level up, the rhetoric has reached fever pitch, but its definition and the policies to deliver it remain elusive. This year’s State of the North report ...

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

Asylum accommodation costs have soared in recent years, with billions of pounds being spent on housing people in inadequate conditions, which is both a waste of public funds and a failure to meet ...