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) ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

The independent Lord Darzi Review aims to examine the state of quality in health and care services on the NHS’s 70th birthday and make recommendations for future funding and reform of the system.

Around 170,000 people are estimated to have permission to remain in the UK on a ’10-year route to settlement’ - a pathway that requires them to accrue 10 years of continuous lawful residence before ...