Cash payments could replace government services and benefits under new test

Black graduates of UK universities are less likely than their white peers to get a first-class degree, less likely to end up in graduate-level work and less likely to earn above £25,000, new data reveal today.

Universities and Further Education colleges will be drawn into more “turf wars” and fights to attract new students in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, education leaders have warned.

British banks and other businesses must help build a new model of “responsible capitalism” after the pandemic, a Treasury minister says today.

Reducing problem gambling would create more jobs in the UK and deliver higher tax revenues for the Treasury, new economic analysis shows today.

Net Zero plans to switch Britain over to electric vehicles risks a political backlash from low-income voters who are reluctant to pay for the charging points needed to support the new vehicles, new research warns today.

The Chancellor delivered the UK Government's latest Budget today - his 15th major fiscal announcement - setting out plans for the final stages of economic support during the Coronavirus crisis and the forthcoming recovery. The Social Market Foundation's response to the Budget follows below.

Almost 800,000 households could be vulnerable to repossession if they suffered a loss of income, a new think-tank report says today.