Category: Thinktanks

Give working parents help with childcare and commuting costs, UK thinktank says

Child poverty plan must address the 70% of families with at least one parent in work, Resolution Foundation saysLabour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its...

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Living standards 2025 outlook ‘hardly cause for celebration’, says UK thinktank

Household incomes to stagnate or fall but will be offset by better public services, says Resolution FoundationHousehold incomes will stagnate or fall next year but the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will be hoping people feel better...

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NHS at risk of paralysis while waiting for Wes Streeting’s reforms, says thinktank

Leaders in health service should be able to bring in reforms to cut huge waiting times, says charity founderThe NHS is at risk of paralysis while it waits for Wes Streeting’s 10-year plan for reform and needs to be...

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Labour fears grow as Reform eyes victories in local election battleground

Nigel Farage’s party is building on the unpopularity of the government and is set to challenge it in next year’s polls For many Labour and MPs and party officials, it was a nightmarish image that encapsulated the...

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Fix SEN funding to avoid ‘absurd’ council deficits in England, IFS says

Thinktank calls on government to set a long-term vision for radical changeCouncil deficits in England could spiral to “absurd” levels in excess of £8bn in less than three years without radical reform of special...

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Russia imposes travel ban on cabinet ministers, calling it retaliation for ‘Russophobic’ policies – as it happened

Kremlin bans UK cabinet ministers including Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Yveette Cooper from entering countryThe Federation of Small Businesses applauds the ambition in the government’s Get Britain Working, but says...

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Mel Stride appointed shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary as Kemi Badenoch announces team – as it happened

New Conservative leader makes key appointments and says she wants to unite party, with Stride a senior figure on the left and Patel prominent rightwingerStarmer went on to say the government was “going to treat people...

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Mel Stride appointed shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary as Kemi Badenoch announces team – UK politics live

New Conservative leader makes key appointments and says she wants to unite party, with Stride a senior figure on the left and Patel prominent rightwingerStarmer went on to say the government was “going to treat people...

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