Reacting to today’s decision by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, William Ellis, senior economist at IPPR, said: “The Bank of England’s decision to lower interest rates today by 25bps ...

To lower borrowing costs, the government must continue to rebuild credibility, carefully manage market sentiment and pursue ...

Responding to the government’s decision to reduce the qualifying period for unfair dismissal protection, Joseph Evans, research fellow at IPPR, said: “The government has agreed with businesses and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the western world it feels like a sea change is occurring in our politics. At the heart of this is a simple fact: large numbers of people increasingly feel that mainstream politics is failing ...

The Bank of England increased its interest rates over recent years, aimed at reducing inflation. But this has also had an unintended effect on the Bank of England’s massive government bond buying – ...

A key priority for the government’s upcoming child poverty strategy should be to remove the two-child limit and scrap the household benefit cap. These measures would cost around £3 billion and, while ...

Scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap would lift 500,000 children out of poverty Fairer gambling taxes could raise the £3.2 billion needed to fully fund this, finds IPPR Tax changes would ...

The far-right capitalised on Southport’s disrepair to sow disorder, says new paper published by IPPR Closure of pubs, piers and parks are pushing people into isolation, more time spent online, and ...

London receives twice as much culture funding as the North Leading think tank and The Great North unite to call out culture divide New research by IPPR North lays bare the compounding crises facing ...

Workers in low autonomy, low skill and non-trade union jobs more likely to be surveilled at work, says IPPR Facial recognition, biometric tracking, and keystroke monitoring adopted without employee ...