Institute for Public Policy Research4d
Electric vehicles becoming ‘normalised’ as half of drivers know someone who owns one, new research finds
Two in three voters who switched from Conservative to Labour at the election (64 per cent) are positive towards EVs, but Conservative to Reform switchers hold consistently anti-EV views Policies such ...
Institute for Public Policy Research4d
We must fix it: Delivering reform of the building sector to meet the UK's housing and economic challenges
In the long run, the only way to end the UK's chronic housing crisis is to build many more homes. But are Britain's big builders willing and able to deliver the new houses we need? In this report, we ...
Institute for Public Policy Research5d
Rachel Reeves speech reaction: ambition for Oxford-Cambridge corridor must be extended across UK says IPPR
IPPR has reacted to Rachel Reeves’s speech, Harry Quilter Pinner, executive director of IPPR, said: “Rachel Reeves is right to say Britain’s economy has huge ...
Institute for Public Policy Research6d
IPPR North calls for Mayors to be given the power to introduce a visitor levy
The director of leading think tank IPPR North has today called for Mayors to be given the power to bring in a visitor levy for their area. Giving evidence to the Housing, Communities and Local ...
Institute for Public Policy Research17d
Assessing the economy
Over the past few days and weeks, there has been lots of rather histrionic commentary about the UK’s economic situation as if the budget has created an economic disaster from which we’ll never recover ...
Institute for Public Policy Research18d
GDP reaction: Treasury should “hold its nerve”, says IPPR
IPPR has reacted to this morning’s GDP data release for November 2024, Pranesh Narayanan, economist at IPPR, said: “Today’s growth figures are encouraging but not outstanding. As we have repeatedly ...
Institute for Public Policy Research18d
Government urged to offer Trump trade olive branch while bracing for tariff war
The UK’s leading progressive think tank has today released a comprehensive blueprint to guide the government’s upcoming trade strategy. The report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) ...
Institute for Public Policy Research19d
IPPR leader appointed to drive ‘new era’ of progressive policy aimed at beating back populism
IPPR will play a key role in policymaking at this ‘crucial time’ for democracy, pledges Quilter-Pinner The UK’s leading progressive policy think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), ...
Institute for Public Policy Research19d
Low growth and high interest rates, not inflation, are the real economic challenge, says IPPR
IPPR has reacted to this morning’s ONS data release of CPI data for December 2024: Dr George Dibb, associate director for economic policy at IPPR, said: “Inflation figures are coming down, they remain ...
Institute for Public Policy Research20d
Government’s AI Action Plan is a first step towards turning economic stagnation into growth, says IPPR
Carsten Jung, head of AI at IPPR, said: “AI has the power to either disrupt our economy or drive its positive transformation. Our previous research found that AI could either lead to eight million job ...
Institute for Public Policy Research27d
Revealed: Bus cuts hit deprived areas the hardest
Cuts to bus provision between 2011 and 2023 were 10 times higher in England’s most deprived than its least deprived areas. That’s according to analysis by a leading think tank. According to IPPR North ...