IPPR has responded to today’s migration and asylum statistics from the ONS and the Home Office which reveal that: Net migration in the year ending June 2024 was 728,000, a drop of 178,000 compared to ...

The pressing social and economic challenge posed by wealth inequality in the UK is today freshly analysed in a new Institute for Public Policy Research paper. Wealth, which is increasingly accumulated ...

IPPR has reacted to the latest news on Vauxhall’s planned plant closure and other car makers warning of jobs cuts. Dr George Dibb, IPPR associate director for economic policy, said: “The market for ...

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 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.

In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of ...

Measures to boost public investment in today’s budget reverse planned cuts and mean the Starmer government is forecast to deliver the highest average level of public investment of any prime minister ...

Politicians and commentators have raised the prospect of freezing or reducing the energy price cap this October to help shield households from the impacts of rising energy costs. Less explored has ...

Ahead of the new government’s first budget, the chancellor’s challenge is twofold. First, raising tax revenues to sustain the government spending needed to restore core public services and launch new ...

Labour’s manifesto pledged to strengthen employees’ protections at work. In this research, our goal was to assess levels of support for increasing workers’ rights amongst managers, and explore the ...

One-half of adults in this country voted at the 2024 general election, the lowest share of the population to vote since universal suffrage. This report takes a first look at who spoke in the 2024 UK ...

The UK’s investment performance is still worse than every other G7 country, new data shows. Compared to Japan, the USA, Germany, France, Italy and Canada, the UK languished in last place for business ...