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Delighted to be hosting Liz Kendall to talk about the governments welfare reforms. She is setting out the case for welfare reform to get people back into work.

Austerity’s Children – a special issue of Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement, guest edited by Gordon Brown. Inside: 🔴 Alison McGovern 🔴Dame Rachel de Souza 🔴Mike Brewer 🔴Tom Clark 🔴Harry Quilter-Pinner 🔴and more

1/ 🧵 Great to host Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at IPPR today for an important speech on the future of welfare. Some top line thoughts from me 👇

Boris Johnson talked a good game on levelling up — but the total lack of delivery has only deepened disillusionment. 📻 Zoë Billingham spoke to Sascha O'Sullivan for Politico's Westminster Insider pod 👇

Net migration has fallen sharply as expected - down to 431,000 in 2024, a 50% fall from 2023. This is driven by: - Tighter scrutiny of care visa sponsors. - Stopping students and care workers from bringing dependants. - Higher salary thresholds. - Rising student emigration.

Net migration is falling, the job now is about balance - the government must consider how it manages numbers without harming the economy or public services. Marley Morris responds to today's migration figures. Read more here: ippr.org/media-office/m…

🚨 NEW REPORT: Progressive parties are losing the battle of ideas – and votes – to the populist right. The centre-left must reinvent or die. Today, we launch a new project to forge a bold new identity for progressives in the 21st century. ippr.org/articles/facin…

Since 1980, the share of votes in Western Europe and North America for centre-left parties has fallen by more than a quarter, while support for the populist right builds steadily. It's time to breathe new life into the progressive project. Find out more at ippr.org/articles/facin…

Half of adults now get their news from social media, while newspaper readership has collapsed. People are following their own ‘truth-tellers’ – whether or not they tell the truth. How do we find the common ground needed to work towards the common good? ippr.org/articles/facin…

Hugely thought provoking report from my brilliant colleague Parth Patel on the future of progressive politics in a rapidly changing world. Do give it a read and share thoughts! 👇

"When leaders don’t appear to have new ideas, they reach back for old ones or imitate their opponents. That will not work..." A new report by think tank IPPR warns that progressive parties like Labour need a "project" to combat populists like Reform politicshome.com/news/article/p…

Why are we losing ground to the populist right? Dr Parth Patel makes the case for a new progressive politics to break from the status quo. Find out more in our latest report ippr.org/articles/facin…

The left is losing the working class vote, giving the populist right an opening to steal their historic claim to being for the many, not the few. It's time to re-invent or die. Find out more: ippr.org/articles/facin…

Populist parties are gaining on the mainstream across the west. We will offer a sense of what progressive parties could stand for in the future, not the past: a new left for a new age. Find out more ippr.org/articles/facin…

How can Labour rebuild its support in a world where just *7%* of its voters are in working-class jobs? IPPR suggests leaning in to economic intervention amid a global feeling that markets have failed. I've covered their major new report in The i Paper: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Britain is well-placed to develop the progressive project: "We have a government with a mandate for change, new thinkers in and around politics, and a rich history of political initiatives with far-reaching impact", David Miliband writes in the foreword to our report

How does the left make its next move when both the adversary and the rules of engagement have changed? 📻 Parth Patel on Times Radio discussing our latest report. Read it here: ippr.org/articles/facin…

Great to see Angela Rayner Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov announce new rules meaning developers must set build timelines before getting planning permission. Those who stall or speculate risk penalties or being barred from future projects. Something we called for in this report: ippr.org/articles/strat…