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The Social Market Foundation responds to the King’s Speech

The Social Market Foundation’s response to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first King’s Speech follows below.
Published: 17 July 2024
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The Social Market Foundation’s preview of the King’s Speech 2024

What should we expect from Keir Starmer’s first King’s Speech?
Published: 12 July 2024
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The Social Market Foundation responds to the Green Party manifesto

The Social Market Foundation’s response is as follows.
Published: 12 June 2024
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Scrap universal energy subsidies for pensioners to pay for more progressive Warm Homes Discount, think tank argues

In a paper out today, the Social Market Foundation – a cross-party think tank – lays out urgent improvements to the Warm Homes Discount (WHD) scheme to ensure it is...
Published: 03 April 2024
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Food security is as vital as energy security, says Labour rising star Andrew Pakes in call for new national food plan

Andrew Pakes, Labour and Co-operative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough, argues in a new essay for the Social Market Foundation think tank that the next government should set more ambitious food...
Published: 20 March 2024
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80% of landlords want stricter energy efficiency rules on their properties

A new survey conducted by the Social Market Foundation – a cross party think tank – has found that an overwhelming majority (79%) of landlords believe they should be subject...
Published: 24 November 2023
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5 million people driven into poverty by transport costs

The figures come from a first-of-its-kind model (see notes) for tracking transport poverty, developed by the Social Market Foundation. The SMF’s metric found that out of a total of 13...
Published: 15 November 2023
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New ONS figures show slow and stalling progress on greening homes

New data published by the Office for National Statistics demonstrates England’s slow progress on decarbonising home heating and improving homes’ energy efficiency, with the country going backwards on some measures,...
Published: 01 November 2023
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‘Sunak’s delays to heat pump rollout will cost households thousands’

The Social Market Foundation – a cross-party think tank – has warned Rishi Sunak’s rollback of key net zero initiatives will be bad news for British manufacturers, the development of...
Published: 19 October 2023
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