News & Insight

20 January 2015

1. There is a causal link between poverty and educational underachievement. The fact that some children from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds have remarkable achievements should not disguise this - it is so well researched and so well documented that it...

19 January 2015

Ed Miliband was right when he said an incoming Labour government’s top priority must be to tackle inequality, raise living standards and guarantee fair shares of growth. Now he has to convince voters that Labour has bold policies to deliver...

19 January 2015

This May’s general election is set to be the most important in my lifetime. Not because it looks likely to be the closest, but because there has rarely been such stark differences between the two main parties. On the one hand,...

16 January 2015

Labour’s policy review considered how to tackle some of our biggest political challenges. We asked a panel of experts whether its external commissions make the grade... What it says: With our population set to reach 73 million by 2035 and a widening gap between demand and supply of infrastructure...

16 January 2015

There are good reasons why a new approach to business - where concerns around economic long-termism, public health, environmental sustainability and strong local communities become integral to a profitable British business model - should appeal to both the political instincts...

15 January 2015

All three main party leaders put the NHS at the heart of their conference speeches this autumn. This was no coincidence – a recent poll revealed it to be to be the issue at the top of most voters’ mind...