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Six things we learned from the spring budget 2023
What the chancellor's announcement revealed about the government's plans for tax and spending policy.
Will the government's 'stop the boats' plan work?
Sunder Katwala from British Future and Madeleine Sumption from the Migration Observatory join us for a deep dive into the government’s asylum plan.
Illegal Migration Bill highlights how expectations of legislative scrutiny have plummeted
Expectations of parliamentary scrutiny of legislation have dropped over the past decade.
The Illegal Migration Bill: seven questions for the government to answer
Seven questions the government needs to answer about the Illegal Migration Bill if it has any chance of helping the PM ‘stop the boats'.
Stormont Brake: The Windsor Framework
What is the Stormont Brake and why has it been agreed?
Adult social care: Short-term support and long-term stability
The government's plan won't turn around adult social care performance.
Stop boats, get votes?
Channel 4’s Gary Gibbon joins the IfG podcast team to examine whether the government’s controversial new asylum bill will actually work.
How to abolish a public body
How the government can make future abolitions succeed.
International Women’s Day Special
Polly Curtis, director of Demos, and Charlotte Pickles, director of Reform, join us to discuss what it is like to be a woman working for a think tank.
Football governance
What is the government’s new football governance white paper?