This report from UK think tank Onward examines why the Conservatives suffered a catastrophic election defeat and the route back. Breaking Blue, the largest UK post-election study of its kind, reveals the short, medium, and longer-term causes of the historic outcome and the route back to power for the centre-right. In a major collaboration with...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at policies for a better Britain. This discussion paper stands back from the constant cut-and-thrust and point-scoring of everyday politics to examine what a better Britain might look like if some of its problems were addressed by imaginative and long-term solutions. As it shows,...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation analyses the impact that the quality of work has on long-term employment outcomes. This report analyses the impact that the quality of work has on long-term employment outcomes. Using longitudinal data, we tracked the employment trajectories of 10,804 UK workers in secure and insecure jobs over...

This report from UK think tank IPPR central contention contends that better health is Britain's greatest untapped route to prosperity. The nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions, and change is needed. Led by an understanding that the boldest health reforms only come when there is a strong social and economic case for them, this...

This report from UK think tank Pro Bono Economics makes the case for universal wellbeing measurement. A large coalition of children’s charities, teachers, and parents are calling for the UK government to urgently address the deepening children’s wellbeing crisis by introducing universal wellbeing measurement across England. 25 of the UK’s leading organisations across youth, education...

This report from UK think tank Reform sets out a new vision for primary care. 90 per cent of daily NHS activity happens in general practice and the community. If the primary care model is no longer fit for purpose, it weakens the foundations of the entire system and undermines the longstanding ambition to move...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund records lessons from the health care response to the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in Grenfell Tower in June 2017 was a preventable tragedy that claimed 72 lives. The event has had a devastating impact, not just in terms of the number of deaths but also...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at how to fix broken Britain and create a united nation. 'A United Nation' addresses the five priority areas identified in the CSJ Social Justice Commission’s recent 'Two Nations' report which laid out an unflinching review into the state of poverty in the...

This report from UK think tank The David Hume Institute looks at the economic outlook for Scots. Our independent quarterly tracker has revealed that one in three (36%) people living in Scotland consider the cost of living as one of their top concerns, down 12 percentage points year on this time last year. According to...

This report from UK think tank Reform focuses on three broad factors involved in people's attitudes to vaccination — confidence, complacency and convenience. Vaccines play a vital role in preventing disease and allowing people to live healthy lives. After clean water, they are the most effective public health intervention in the world. However, even before...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs looks at the unintended consequences of food reformulation. Since 2015, the UK government has worked with the food industry to reformulate a wide range of food products to reduce sugar, fat and calorie content. The industry has been given the target of lowering the...

This report from UK think tank IPPR proposes a new approach to harmonise public health and industrial policy. If we want both health and prosperity, then public health and economic strategy need to work in lockstep – but this is not the case today. While there is a tendency in health policy to focus on...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government examines the public services priorities for the new Labour government. This report from the Institute for Government and Nuffield Foundation reveals that the government’s inheritance on public services is extremely precarious. Most services are performing worse now than they were in 2010 or before the...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice outlines seven policy areas in the new Government’s in-tray that will demand their immediate attention. This report outlines seven policy areas sitting in the new Government’s in-tray that will demand their immediate attention. Some of these are urgent and recent, such as overflowing prisons...

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue looks at public perceptions and expectations for the new government. This polling analysis examines UK public attitudes towards the performance of the last Conservative Government and their perceptions of the priorities and effectiveness of the new Labour Government. It reveals that the UK public is united in...