Incisive commentary from the IfG’s expert team on issues facing government and key ministerial decisions.
From analysis of key political events such as budgets and party conferences to snap responses to unexpected developments such as government reshuffles, our writers set out their views and analyse what government gets right, what it gets wrong, and what it can do better.
Bring forward funding to ease Covid disruption in public services
Thomas Pope argues that it not just the NHS that should have its funding frontloaded in the spending review
The government’s winter Covid plan is too optimistic
The government's autumn and winter plan does not do enough to prepare for the worst
How the EU and the UK can use extra time to make Northern Ireland protocol work
Jess Sargeant sets out how the UK and the EU can reach agreement on the future of the Northern Ireland protocol
The government’s health and care proposals must address the problems in the existing care system
The government’s proposals to reform social care funding do not address existing problems with the system
Lee Cain guest paper: IfG response
Lee Cain is right that government communications need an overhaul
Employers and staff need government answers on post-Covid office arrangements
The government’s failure to provide clear guidance for returning office workers will prove a costly abdication of responsibility
Productivity and innovation: not such a simple story
Research and development spending is not sufficient to restore the UK economy to productivity growth
The prime minister is running out of time to secure a COP26 success
The prime minister urgently needs to move his flagship climate conference up his political agenda
Trust and compromise needed to change the Northern Ireland protocol
The UK’s failure to fulfil its existing obligations in the Brexit treaty make finding a compromise on the Northern Ireland protocol much harder
Boardman review needs to lead to change in government
What matters is that changes follow from Nigel Boardman’s review