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In his contribution to the series for the Social Market Foundation (SMF) – a cross-party think tank –LSE economic geography professor Paul Cheshire (who has been a consultant to World...

In an essay for the Social Market Foundation, Kirsty McNeill, the Scottish Labour and Co-operative candidate for Midlothian, has put forth an ambitious plan to reverse the decline of social...

The Social Market Foundation said that the Government strategy aimed at decarbonising home heating does not give plumbers and other workers enough incentive to get training to install the heat...

A report of the first meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Best Brexit. The meeting took place on Monday 14 November 2016 at Committee Room 6, House of Commons.

Former minister urges short-term and longer-term spending on infrastructure post-Brexit in new paper.

A cautious Budget from a ‘Tinkerman’ Chancellor

A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think-tank calls for radical reforms to Britain’s rail franchises - including far-reaching plans to fine them to the value of all unclaimed compensation payments, a measure which could generate up to £1 billion in fines over the course of a Parliament.

The SMF respond to Budget 2015 by saying that while Osborne's Budget didn’t contain the expected pre-election giveaways, it was most certainly aimed at the voting public.

This is an intensely political Autumn Statement with an economic argument behind it. The future course of deficit reduction is specifically designed in order to underline the Conservatives’ long term...