The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

They can accelerate growth and enhance access to opportunity, economic or cultural, while helping clean our air and reduce our carbon emissions. Our research finds that an ambitious modal shift target ...

This month’s white paper represented the most significant shake-up in immigration policy since Brexit. The government outlined wide-ranging reforms to work, study and family routes, with the intention ...

A decade of broken promises has been laid bare today as a leading think tank reveals how the disparity in transport spending between the North and London has ballooned over the last ten years. In ...

It’s time the North saw real change for better transport, delivering prosperity and better lives: a long-term plan for Great Northern Rail “It is time to come out fighting to ensure that economic ...

IPPR has one of the largest news and media profiles of any UK think tank, with our experts appearing regularly on national and international media. You can see our latest press releases below, or use ...

UK households are impatient for change. Trust in our political system is low and that’s reflected in scepticism across the board that government can make things better. The sense that the public both ...

Analysis of today’s sickness absence figures by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that: Private sector companies lost an estimated 3.9 working days per worker to sickness absence ...

The UK government has a time-limited opportunity to make a decisive difference to child poverty in its upcoming strategy. Any credible child poverty strategy must act directly to put more money into ...

This is not simply of academic interest. It also has serious implications for British workers, since it is higher productivity that is the enabler of higher pay. And right now the UK has a crisis in ...