News & Insight

23 September 2013

The English economy does not exist in any meaningful sense – it comprises city regions, county economies and sub-regional labour markets. It is characterised by wide disparities: between thriving tourist areas and struggling seaside towns, between emerging tech hubs and...

23 September 2013

It took a big bang financial crisis to act as a catalyst for our political leaders to revisit some of the basic assumptions that have underpinned British competitiveness for the past 30 years. In the wake of the crisis, questions...

23 September 2013

Sadiq Khan’s favourite summer holiday snapshot features him outside the Colosseum in Rome, speaking on a mobile phone in a conference call to shadow cabinet colleagues. “My wife is keeping it to blackmail me with,” he says. Having curtailed his...

23 September 2013

A mum is tapping on her phone in Southampton. A few clicks on the new Wonga app and she can get a loan. She knows the interest rates are crazy, but the kids are going back to school and they...

23 September 2013

As Labour starts to shape its manifesto for the 2015 election, we know that ideas for economic growth will have to be at the heart of it. If a ‘one nation’ economy is the vision, then it has to be...

23 September 2013

Over the last ten years, England and Wales have experienced a baby-boom, and the number of midwives simply hasn't kept up. Almost 80% of NHS trusts don’t meet the recommended ratio of one midwife to 28 births, and despite the...