This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government provides details on 10 essential reforms to government. In his seven hours of testimony to a Commons committee, the prime minister’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, laid out a portrait of a chaotic government failing in its basic functions. Some of that is due to...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at why the UK should seize the opportunity to support a global minimum corporation tax. Since taking office, US President Joe Biden has put forward a bold plan for international cooperation to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies. This briefing paper argues that the UK should support...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at managing divergence from EU rules. This report warns that an incoherent government approach to the UK’s post-Brexit regulatory freedoms risks creating new costs for businesses, harming its international trade ambitions and destabilising the union. There are good reasons why the government might want...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a plan for culture change and regulatory reform. The audit industry is often seen as a not very exciting area. Auditors, sometimes referred to as ‘bean counters’, are seen as simply double-checking numbers with little room for judgement. As we showed in our last report, this...

This report from UK think tank looks at optimising special forces for future conflict. This Whitehall Report analyses the ways in which special forces have been used historically and how adversaries are increasingly likely to use them. It assesses how the future operating environment is likely to change the way in which special forces pursue...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at replacing EU state aid rules in the UK. As the government prepares to unveil legislation for a UK state aid (or subsidy control) regime – which will regulate around £8bn of subsidies from governments and public bodies to businesses each year – this...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the ideas behind what we call ‘hate crime’ as well as the evidence for it.  Politicians, activists, celebrities and senior police officers appear united in their highlighting of apparent surges in hate crimes in recent years. But this report by the Director of the Statistics and...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the rise of working poverty and fixing Britain's broken social settlement. In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of this century. Our welfare...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at why stronger human rights monitoring is needed and how to make it work. Political shifts, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the struggle for a shared vision of how to ‘build back better’, have reignited the debate about trade and human rights. Although many...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the prospects for change in the post-Merkel era. This briefing paper tracks the evolution of Germany’s policy towards China in recent decades, founded on what was long viewed as a one-way economic bet for German business, and examines the drivers of a gradual shift in...