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Last week’s Gorton and Denton by-election produced a result that commentators have rightly called seismic. The Greens won with 40.7% of the vote –their first ever by-election victory – while Reform came second with 28.7%. Labour, which held this seat...
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The Epistemic Security Network is a new network hosted by Demos. It provides a home for collective efforts to protect democracy by cleaning up and fortifying our information supply chains. As part of the network we share a bi-weekly newsletter, Epistemic Security...
Concerns about the impact of generative AI on elections are increasing as the tools grow in sophistication and become more accessible. This raises multiple concerns about the potential impact on electoral misinformation and disinformation (which we discuss in our new...
Rachel Reeves has given the annual Mais Lecture at Bayes Business School, a rite of passage for Chancellors and a chance to show their governing philosophy. Reeves’ speech is undoubtedly the most important articulation of Labour’s strategy since Keir Starmer’s...
Amidst growing pressures on our public services, politicians across the spectrum are taking a renewed interest in prevention. Keir Starmer has called for an end to short-term ‘sticking plaster’ politics and a shift towards long-term solutions to society’s problems. When...
Last week the ONS published new statistics about employment and jobs in the UK – the first time for a number of months due to problems with survey response rates. With the appropriate caveats that the figures are estimates based...
In Summer 2023, JRF’s innovative new Insight Infrastructure team commissioned CASM, the digital research unit at the cross-party think tank Demos, to complete an exploratory project examining how people with lived experiences of financial hardship are talking about their experiences...
2023 has seen frequent briefings to the media that inheritance tax is to be cut or abolished altogether. In the end, abolishing inheritance tax was not a feature of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. But with The Telegraph running a major...
The Chancellor has set hares running by setting a target to boost public sector productivity growth by 0.5% a year. He wants to do this in order to restrict the growth of public spending as a proportion of the economy...
Demos today launches the Future Public Services Taskforce: a major cross-party initiative to produce a new, public service reform strategy for central government. The government has not had a public service reform strategy since 2011. This has contributed to the...
At this year’s Labour party conference we’ll once again be holding a range of panel events with expert speakers, including politicians, businesses, civil society leaders, journalists and other experts that bring fresh ideas and perspectives. We’ll be discussing the future...
