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) ...

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 ...

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 stakes for a government are rarely higher than at a budget. Every chancellor has dealt with this differently. Ken Clarke would draft his budget speech with cigars and whisky, Gordon Brown pored ...

It is possible to make the case for progressive increases in income tax while in government. You can win the argument, and the world won’t come to an end. In Scotland, income tax has gone up, and the ...