Institute for Global Change

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Whatever the Weather: Future-proof Budget Rules

There is a pressing need for the budget to set out new fiscal rules to build confidence with voters and investors that increased public spending is sustainable. Here we set out how to make those rules recession and future-proof.

Report | 21st Feb 2020

UK General Election 2019: Railways proposals are high on cost, low on reforms

The policy answers being offered by Labour and the Tories on rail are a perfect metaphor for this election: the parties are stuck in the economic populism of the left and right, offering simple answers with high costs.

Commentary | 5th Dec 2019

UK General Election 2019: Housing - steps in the right direction

Briefing | 4th Dec 2019

UK General Election 2019: Business - shareholders, stakeholders and ownership

Briefing | 3rd Dec 2019

UK General Election 2019: Immigration - the search for coherence

Briefing | 28th Nov 2019

UK General Election 2019: Crime and justice

Briefing | 28th Nov 2019

UK General Election 2019: Public services - what’s the plan?

Briefing | 28th Nov 2019

The Conservatives' search for coherence on immigration policy goes on

Home Secretary, Priti Patel's pledge that immigration overall will fall if the Conservatives win the election makes the same mistake the party have been making since 2010: pretending that all types of immigration are the same. Moreover, it is likely to prove bad policy and bad politics.

14th Nov 2019

Parties need to catch up with the productivity slowdown

There’s evidence of the UK’s productivity slowdown everywhere in the election except in the debate itself.

12th Nov 2019

UK General Election 2019: Fiscal policy - a credibility deficit

11th Nov 2019

Do we really need to choose between Freedom and Security?

We need to be thinking about how we strengthen economic, social and cultural security and create a stronger sense of national identity. But that cause is not advanced by framing it as being in conflict with a liberal society.

5th Nov 2019