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Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor have a £40bn funding gap to fill and the Chancellor has said nothing is off the table. But how would the public do the job? What are the public’s priorities? Two years ago, Demos ran...
As conference season draws to a close and with a new prime minister at the helm, the future of levelling up seems to hang in the balance. Described by Boris Johnson as the ‘defining mission’ of his government, Liz Truss...
A country with high regional inequalities, and an economy dominated by one large metropolitan area – the UK, you might think. But the description could equally apply to Ireland, where Dublin dominates the country’s economy. Given these parallel challenges, it’s...
Drawing on recent research published by Demos, Ben Glover and Andrew Phillips discuss how attitudes to levelling up differ across the country and what this means for the government’s flagship agenda. The morning after the last general election, Boris Johnson...
By Charles Seaford With COP26 about to commence, the Government is on a mission to try and build consensus internationally in order to tackle the climate emergency globally. But the Government also has another task on its hands – it ...
The Ministry for Local Government is no longer. The recently renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has sent many commentators scrambling, asking: is this a cosmetic change, a nominal change in lieu of real change? Or does this...
Tax simplification: unlikely to get you out of bed in the morning. If it does, you’re probably concerned about the business burdens of a lengthy tax code. I think a much broader group should care about tax simplification, particularly those...
By Charles Seaford, Senior Fellow The Prime Minister recently announced a new target for UK greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2030 – 68% of 1990 levels, or 42% of current levels. What role could tax, and especially a carbon tax,...
Community spirit has been a welcome silver lining as we’ve seen the increasing role neighbours have played in supporting their local communities through COVID-19. There is strong evidence showing vast improvements neighbourhood and community-centred interventions have on people’s wellbeing. Often...
