'They can win power...'
'And then, when in power, they don't know how to use it.'

IPPR's Parth Patel speaks to Tom Swarbrick, as polling suggests a 'lack of trust' in politicians.

📢 Some big and exciting changes in the IPPR team coming up!

It’s a critical time for progressive policy and thinking, with IPPR at the heart of that. Our new joiners bring huge expertise and experience to the team and I’m thrilled to work with them 🧵

There are huge constitutional issues with the government's Rwanda legislation, but on a practical note, Rwanda made only 164 asylum decisions last year while tens of thousands arrived in the UK via small boats.

'The numbers don't add up' says Parth Patel on BBC #PoliticsLive ⤵️

Here's why I agree with Idris Elba that politicians don't give knife crime the focus it deserves. When they do, they reach for the wrong policies because they're responding to the coverage not the causes of the crime

📢Today we launch a special edition of IPPR's inhouse journal Progressive Review on modern supply side economics

We feature a lead article by Rachel Reeves on her vision for how 'securonomics' can reinvigorate the British economy in an age of insecurity. But that's not all...

1/ Our new report IPPR - Great Government - is out today and makes The Guardian front page. We argue it will take a decade of reform, as well as more funding, to get public services back on track. A quick 🧵 which sets out the key arguments ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Democratic politics helps us live together well but we can't be satisfied with a version of it where some of us have more of a stake and a say than others. Vital research from Parth Patel.

Top thread from Parth, featuring in passing some of my work on political inequality with Jane Gingrich.

Thoroughly recommend this excellent new report from Parth Patel IPPR which I was lucky to read an early version of. It sets out just how unequal political influence is in the UK today, and why we need major political reform. See Parth's summary below 👇

🗳️ | NEW REPORT: Political influence is unequal. Rich people, homeowners & university graduates are all more likely to engage in politics than their counterparts.

The implications of this for democracy are profound.

Read the report here: ippr.org/publications/w…