IPPR Coronavirus Response

Webinar: Remaking One Nation: Conservatism After Covid-19 with Nick Timothy

Listen to the recording of this event here .  The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is delighted to invite you to an online talk with commentator, author and political adviser  Nick...

Who wins and who pays? Rentier power and the Covid crisis

The massive expansion of state intervention in response to the Covid-19 pandemic – in particular, to underwrite wages for workers and loans for small and medium-sized businesses – may at first sight...

IPPR experts react to leaked Treasury report

Proposed pay freezes would harm the recovery, while taxing income from wealth like income from work could provide stronger post-crisis public finances - IPPR Reacting to the leaked Treasury...

Lockdown cash protects landlords and banks more than the families it’s meant to benefit, finds IPPR

Government’s Covid response leaves poorest to shoulder most economic risk and will widen inequality across UK, think tank says  Almost half of the cost of the government’s newly-extended Covid...

Watch: Carys Roberts on Sky News discusses the lockdown strategy

IPPR Executive Director Carys Roberts speaks to Jonathan Samuels on Sky News ahead of Boris Johnson's 7pm lockdown update 10/05/20...

Revealed: One in three people in Scotland’s workforce could be furloughed, or made unemployed over coming months

New analysis by Scotland’s progressive think-tank shows that 750,000 people in Scotland could be enrolled onto the ‘Jobs Retention Scheme’ (furloughed) this quarter, and a further 150,000 jobs could...

Covid-19: What’s the outlook for Scotland’s workforce?

We know the health, social and economic crisis will affect us all, but we also know it won’t affect us all equally. This blog marks the start of a series of outputs through our Rethinking Social Security in Scotland programme, as we attempt to look at what Covid-19 means for financial security in Scotland.

Doctors like me need more than PPE, our mental health is on the brink - Parth Patel

Our carers deserve to be rewarded - Russell Gunson

This article was first published in The Herald on Tuesday 28th April 2020 The 8pm the ‘clap for carers’ has become a highlight in my house in these dark coronavirus dominated days. The...

Covid-19: One in five healthcare workers could quit after pandemic unless urgent government action is taken, IPPR warns

​​​​​​ Catastrophic toll on mental health, family safety and job security revealed by new IPPR/YouGov poll IPPR calls for ‘Care Fit for Carers’ support package to guarantee safety,...