Damned if you do, damned if you won’t
Astonishing new polling published by YouGov has revealed that 61 per cent of ‘Leave’ voters would be prepared to see the British economy suffer significant...
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‘£7 billion electoral gamble’ to abolish inheritance tax unlikely to pay off, according to new research
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...
Jane’s Story: Financial fragility under lockdown
Lockdown has been a financial challenge for many of us, but the self-employed have often been particularly hard hit. Jane is one of them: a...
New statistics confirm that the pandemic has had a sustained negative impact on employment in the UK – here’s how policy makers should respond
Last week the ONS published new statistics about employment and jobs in the UK – the first time for a number of months due to...
Targeting hardship: How MPs can use social media listening to inform policy
This article has been written by Aleks Collingwood, Partnership Insight Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and is the second in a series explaining how...
Unearthing Labour’s secret vision for power
With a narrowing of the opinion polls, cracks are again emerging in the Labour Party. One persistent criticism of Keir Starmer’s leadership has re-emerged: he...
Trustwatch 2024: polling on trust
Findings and commentary 1. Around half of the public (54%) feel that the general election campaigns represents people like them, especially those who plan to...
Demos Daily: Under-Served
Last Friday was VE day, and we remembered those who bravely fought in Europe for our freedom. While many tributes were to those we lost,...
Where to Next for Welfare?
Within a few minutes of Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary, the presiding general consensus seemed to be that his exit was...
Strengthening Information Environments at Demos in 2023
Strengthening Information Environments 2023 This programme looks at how we can build a more healthy, resilient and sustainable information environment for citizens in support of...