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New migration stats reveal growing asylum backlog

Cases awaiting initial asylum decision have risen to nearly 120,000 Sharp increase in net migration to 504,000 due to new Ukraine routes and higher numbers of study and work...

24/11/2022

Press Releases IPPR Society & migration

A more open approach to migration could win over swing voters, find IPPR researchers

Half of public positive about immigration, up from one-third in 2014, new analysis reveals Adopting a more open approach to migration would not damage the electoral prospects of either of...

23/11/2022

Press Releases Society & migration IPPR

Chancellor’s first step to raising tax on income from wealth leaves potential £50 billion untapped, IPPR finds

Autumn statement reforms to capital gains tax raise just hundreds of millions of tax revenue, dwarfed by the tens of billions left untaxed Fair reforms to equalise taxes on income from...

18/11/2022

Press Releases Economy IPPR

Autumn statement: family incomes set to slump as spending cuts lie ahead, warns IPPR

Chancellor has taken ‘important steps towards fairer taxation’ by cutting allowances on capital gains and dividend income But with real household disposable income to fall by 7...

17/11/2022

Press Releases Economy IPPR

‘Levelling up’ to be levelled down, with £ half a billion lost to inflation

IPPR North responds to the Autumn Statement The leading think tank for the north of England, IPPR North, has today calculated that £1 in every £13 allocated through key ‘levelling up’ pots of...

17/11/2022

Press Releases Economy Progressive levelling up IPPR North

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

Press Releases Economy Public services IPPR Families

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

Press Releases Economy IPPR

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

Press Releases Power & politics IPPR

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

Press Releases Economy IPPR

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

Press Releases Economy IPPR

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