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How Ed Miliband can deliver cheaper energy bills, today
The time is now for a progressive pricing system.
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Rising mental health demand in children is outstripping capacity
Young people’s struggles cannot be left to spiral.
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A gambling levy could be a fiscal ace up the sleeve
Reforms could generate enough revenue to scrap the two-child limit and lift children out of poverty.
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Jeremy Hunt: Why targets alone won’t save the NHS
The NHS, as the world’s largest healthcare system, has become just too big and bureaucratic.
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The Policy Ask with Sebastian Rees: “Listen to people on the front line”
Sebastian Rees is a principal research fellow and leads the Institute for Public Policy Research’s work on health.
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How can we foster growth in the UK?
The path to economic success includes secure jobs, place-based initiatives and the embrace of technology.
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Is the government really igniting growth?
Whether or not the Labour government achieve its overarching will define its record.
How does the UK get the skills it needs?
From literacy to university funding and business incentives, there’s much to do.
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Time for rural areas to have better transport and infrastructure
It leads to a brain drain to the UK’s larger cities that is having a real impact on rural economies,…
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Can Labour’s £315m school breakfast plan save a generation?
Without supporting the 900,000 children below the poverty-line who are ineligible for free lunchtime food, the policy risks being undermined.
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Britain is walking into an American opioid crisis
Overdoses are mounting across the country, and the state needs to intervene.
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Why London’s fractured housing market is going to take time to heal
London Deputy Mayor Tom Copley on his and Sadiq Khan’s plans for the capital.
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Kwajo Tweneboa: “Let’s build housing on a scale not seen since the Second World War”
The housing campaigner on living standards, Michael Gove and Labour’s 1.5 million homes target.
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Why Ed Miliband’s issues with Rosebank and North Sea drilling will worsen
The ongoing court case over the oil and gas field could put Labour and its priorities in conflict.
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Has Rachel Reeves missed the bus?
Lifting the fare cap was better politics than it was policy.
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The wails on the bus
The row over the £3 fare cap is telling of Labour’s comms struggles.
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The rise and decline of the No 10 Policy Unit
Fifty years ago, Harold Wilson instituted the team of advisers that would help shape modern Britain. Will Keir Starmer learn…
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Community ownership matters
Extending cooperative models of ownership for core community assets can open the path to true decentralisation.
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Could a public accounting tweak unlock green investment?
A little-noticed aspect of Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture could give Labour the fiscal headroom they need.
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