Responding to Andy Burnham’s speech Mirte Boot, principal research fellow and interim head at IPPR North, said: “Andy Burnham is right to call for bold, transformative change to our country’s economy.

Transport in rural Scotland is not working for the people living there, particularly those on low incomes. Despite various strategies, road maps and reports, people living in rural Scotland do not ...

This report presents interim findings from the research project on innovation in cities that the Centre for Cities is conducting for NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) ...

Is Britain's working class already lost to a vicious cycle of political disengagement and exclusion? Geoff Evans and James Tilley outline the terms of a 'new class war' against the working class, ...

Why we must redesign our relationship with Europe around the values we share and want to defend. The European project has always had two layers, and has been spoken about in two registers. The first ...

This in-depth case study report presents the findings from new research into the causes, processes and effects of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK. Taking a 'whole of journey' approach, it ...

Professor of Government and Public Policy at UCL and former Labour MP Tony Wright reviews the post-Coalition landscape for centre-left politics in Britain, covering the spectrum of policy issues from ...

In terms of offshore wind capacity, the UK is second in the world only to China. Yet in the next seven years, the UK must install triple the amount of offshore wind compared to the past 14 years.

The transition to a net zero economy is both a necessity and an opportunity for the UK. In this report, we focus on the challenges workers face in the transition away from gas, undertaking a detailed ...

Many people living on low incomes in the UK are limited in their ability to access the building blocks of a good life because of poor transport provision. Transport policy can make a material ...

Drawing on new evidence, this blog examines the decline in young people’s optimism about work, success and social mobility, and argues for a new deal to rebuild trust in Britain’s social contract. For ...

Given continued fiscal pressures, the chancellor will have to raise taxes in the autumn budget. Attention is on Britain’s property taxes for good reason: housing is one of the biggest challenges ...