In The Guardian, Andy Beckett highlights findings from our report 10 million missing voters in his piece on how the Conservative party is reshaping of the political system. … [Read more...]
Millions of voters may go missing
Writing in Tribune, Ian Hernon focused on our report 10 million missing voters and 'a scandal which has been rumbling on, barely noticed behind the headlines'. … [Read more...]
Time for decent Tories to speak up. Our democracy is being rigged
Writing in The Guardian, Owen Jones used our report, 10 million missing voters, as the basis of an article on the large-scale disenfranchisement threatened by changes to the electoral register currently being pushed through … [Read more...]
Britain’s shrinking democracy
Jane Thomas, research fellow at the Institute and author of our report, 10 million missing voters, points out in an article for the New Statesman that '10 million people - more than voted for Labour in May - will be excluded from the new electoral roll' … [Read more...]
Making work better – the key to the productivity puzzle
Paul Hackett writes for the TUC blog, ToUChstone, highlighting the launch of a new inquiry into the role of employees and trade unions in raising productivity. … [Read more...]
Labour could launch biggest social housing boom since before Margaret Thatcher
The Mirror carried an article by David Hughes and Dan Bloom discussing shadow housing minister John Healey's report for the Institute, High Aspirations, Sound Foundations, in which he makes the case for building 100,000 council and housing association homes per year. … [Read more...]
Housing report moots plan to tighten affordable housing obligations
Our report, High Aspirations, Sound Foundations, was discussed in a Planning Resource article on obligations on developers. … [Read more...]
Labour considers biggest social housebuilding drive since 70s
In an interview with Robert Booth of The Guardian, shadow housing minister, John Healey MP, refers to our report, High Aspirations, Sound Foundations, and his estimate that 100,000 homes a year could be built by 2020, which could lead to long-term benefit savings. … [Read more...]
Shortages of skilled NHS staff could “easily become a catastrophe,” Smith Institute says
The website BMJ Careeers carried a report by Matthew Limb on the launch of our study From pay squeeze to a staffing crisis … [Read more...]