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Boost child benefit by extra £20 and ditch benefit limits to lift 900,000 children from poverty, ministers urged

Joint call for ‘winter lifeline’ by TUC, Child Poverty Action Group and IPPR reflects alarm at scale of looming crisis Even if benefits are uprated by inflation, families will...

16/11/2022

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Interest rates rise: “deeper economic peril” on the cards next year if spending also cut, warns IPPR

The UK’s leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to the announcement that the Bank of England will raise interest rates by 0.75 percentage points to 3 per cent. Carsten Jung, senior...

03/11/2022

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Revealed: trust in politicians ‘in free fall’ after ‘year of chaos’, poll reveals

Public trust in politicians falls by nine percentage points in 18 months Two-thirds of the public say politicians are “merely out for themselves” Just...

03/11/2022

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Revealed: UK government has £90bn ‘fiscal space’ in 2023 to support people and businesses through the cost-of-living crisis

IPPR publishes blueprint for a fiscal plan to stabilise the economy and secure public services If Sunak keeps energy price guarantee to April alongside Truss cuts to NICs and stamp duty,...

01/11/2022

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BP profit reaction: record profits and record transfers to shareholders should be taxed to raise billions for UK

The UK’s leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to the announcement that BP has made $8.2bn (£7.1bn) in profits in the last quarter (Jul-Sept) and announced a new round of share buybacks...

01/11/2022

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UK lags £62 billion behind in R&D as its global share of investment falls, IPPR reveals

The UK’s share of global research and development (R&D) investment has fallen by a fifth since 2014, according to new analysis of the most recent data by IPPR. The drop, from 4.2 per cent...

27/10/2022

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New tax on share buybacks could raise billions for UK, say IPPR and Common Wealth

Windfall tax on “buyback” profit transfers by Shell and BP alone could raise £4.8 billion per year Annual buyback tax matching Biden levy could raise £225 million per year ...

27/10/2022

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Revealed: Two-thirds of small boat channel crossings would have asylum claims accepted

Most people crossing into the UK on small boats would have successful asylum claims if they were processed, according to new research by IPPR. Approximately 70 per cent of people who arrived in...

26/10/2022

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IPPR responds to inflation figures

Responding to the ONS October CPI figures Dr George Dibb, head of the Centre for Economic Justice at IPPR , said: “Today’s small rise in CPI inflation hides a much steeper rise in essentials...

19/10/2022

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Tax cuts U-turn is right, but a repeat of austerity will damage economy and growth, IPPR warns chancellor

IPPR researchers have reacted to today’s emergency financial statement by Jeremy Hunt, the new chancellor of the exchequer. IPPR executive director Carys Roberts said: “The Chancello...

17/10/2022

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