Condition of Britain Articles

The central challenge for a prospective Labour government is how to pursue a radical social agenda within limited budgets. A major new IPPR report, The Condition of Britain: Strategies for social renewal, published last month, argues that the centre-left must not...

In 1997 Labour’s manifesto contained one, rather vague, sentence about childcare. It would be safe to wager the cost of a year’s childcare (on average, nearly £6,000 for sending a child under two to a nursery for 25 hours a week) that the party’s manifesto next year...

The left thrives on hope just as the right feeds on fear, and over recent years the British people have been fed a diet of relentless misery as austerity continues to bite. Labour desperately needs a new story that connects our values with people’s real concerns and...

The introduction to IPPR’s Condition of Britain report is incredibly clear about what the objective of the next Labour government ought to be: redistribution of power as well as wealth. Calling for a ‘a wider dispersion of power and responsibility across society’, the...