Thinktanks
UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns
Tony Blair Institute says enforcing stricter licensing rules for copyright-protected material will threaten national security interests
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
01, Apr, 2025 @11:01 PM
Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years
Fewer than five criminal cases were brought against those who aid tax dodgers in 2023-24, down from 16 in 2018-19
Edward Siddonsand Jon Ungoed-Thomas
30, Mar, 2025 @7:00 AM
Reeves’s statement will leave poorest £500 a year worse off, thinktank finds
Resolution Foundation says ‘outlook for living standards remains bleak’ after chancellor’s cuts to welfare
Phillip Inman Economics editor
27, Mar, 2025 @11:20 AM
Reeves says poverty figures from spring statement cuts don’t take into account impact of getting people into work – as it happened
More than 3 million families will lose out as a result of sweeping cuts to welfare, official analysis shows
Andrew Sparrow and Graeme Wearden
26, Mar, 2025 @6:14 PM
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
22, Mar, 2025 @7:00 AM
GB Energy needs full £8.3bn of funding or it will disappoint, government told
Thinktank’s warning follow reports that Labour is considering cuts to budget of company it set up to drive renewable power
Jillian Ambrose
19, Mar, 2025 @12:01 AM
Up to 1.2m people could lose between £4,200 and £6,300 per year from changes to Pip, Resolution Foundation says – as it happened
Work and pensions secretary says Benefits crackdown will save £5bn by 2030 but disability charities say cuts are ‘immoral’
Andrew Sparrow
18, Mar, 2025 @6:01 PM
UK politics: Unison attacks ‘shambolic’ announcement of NHS England’s abolition – as it happened
Union says staff will have been left reeling after surprise news that body will be scrapped
Andrew Sparrow
13, Mar, 2025 @6:12 PM
Why is Keir Starmer’s government seeking to cut the benefits bill?
Labour targeting sickness and disability benefits that have ballooned amid increasingly ageing and unwell population
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
13, Mar, 2025 @4:00 PM
UK drops down list of affluent nations after decade of stagnation, NIESR finds
Districts in Birmingham now ranked below poorest areas of France, Malta and Slovenia as institute urges rethink on planned welfare cuts
Phillip Inman
12, Mar, 2025 @7:42 PM
More support for people in ill health to stay in work ‘could save UK £1bn’
Commission for Healthier Working Lives warns against cutting benefits and calls for proactive route for 8m affected
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
10, Mar, 2025 @6:00 AM
Starmer says it would be ‘big mistake’ to think Ukraine no longer needs military support because peace deal inevitable – as it happened
Prime minister says countries will have to defend a peace deal, if one happens, as he takes questions at a defence factory
Andrew Sparrow
06, Mar, 2025 @5:21 PM
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