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 ...

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 ...

As the number of maternal breadwinners continues to rise across Europe, this report compares the demographics of this phenomenon both across the continent and in Britain and Germany specifically, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adult social care is one the most important public services in the UK. For hundreds of thousands of people it provides vital care and support – in their homes or in a residential setting – to ensure ...

A quarter of employees feel pressure to drink at workplace events, rising to 38 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds Workplace drinking culture driving absences as 31 per cent of workers call in sick in ...

If we want both health and prosperity, then public health and economic strategy need to work in lockstep – but this is not the case today. While there is a tendency in health policy to focus on what ...