News & Insight

22 April 2016

The England and Labour project is being coordinated by Prof John Denham, Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at Winchester University, with an editorial group of Prof Mike Kenny (Director of the Mile End Institute, QMUL), Mary Riddell and...

21 April 2016

Next month’s mayoral election is the first election since the creation of the post to guarantee a non-incumbent mayor. Over the past six months, Londoners, or those who follow politics at least, are now on first name terms with Zac...

20 April 2016

Mike Hedges looks at the future direction of the Welsh economy Historically, the Welsh economy was built on coal mining and the metal industries, along with agriculture. We saw a gradual shift as manufacturing became the main source of employment in...

19 April 2016

Wales is on the up. Whichever way you look at it – employment stats, GCSE results, cancer survival rates – the important measurements are heading the right way. There’s also a new found confidence in the country, which we see...

13 April 2016

The events of 2015 proved that the British left needs a fundamental intellectual re-set. In less than six months, mainstream social democratic ideas were rejected twice over, with Ed Miliband’s bitter general election defeat and Jeremy Corbyn’s victory over the...

11 April 2016

Recent reforms have focused on raising the personal allowance to ‘take the poorest out of tax’, but this is not the progressive policy it purports to be. If we want to genuinely support lower income households, we need to engage with reforming a...