02 MAY 2025
Podcast
Local elections: Ready for Reform?
The IfG team discuss what the local and mayoral elections mean for Keir Starmer and his government's devolution agenda.
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02 MAY 2025
Explainer
Mayor of the North East
How was the first mayor of the North East elected?
02 MAY 2025
Explainer
Mayor of the East Midlands
On 2 May 2024, voters elected Claire Ward as Mayor of the East Midlands.
02 MAY 2025
Explainer
Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
On 1 May 2025, voters in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough elected the region’s new mayor.
02 MAY 2025
Explainer
Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire
On 1 May 2025, voters in Greater Lincolnshire elected the region’s first mayor.
01 MAY 2025
Explainer
Former prime ministers: what support do they get from the state?
Prime ministers are entitled to public financial support in the form of the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA).
30 APR 2025
Press release
Learning from the last Labour government can help Keir Starmer reduce school absence
This is the first in a new series exploring how Labour can learn from its experience of tackling complex problems when it was last in government.
30 APR 2025
Case study
Reducing school absence
Learning from the last Labour government can help Keir Starmer reduce school absence.
30 APR 2025
Hybrid event
How can government be transformed?
Michael Jary, the government’s former lead Non-Executive Director, sets out his views on Whitehall reform.
30 APR 2025
Comment
The government has been warned: climate adaptation isn’t working
There is little evidence that the Labour government is making adaptation significantly more of a priority than its predecessor.
29 APR 2025
Hybrid event
Productivity Pitches #6: What can central government do to improve productivity in public services?
Productivity Pitches highlights outstanding examples of innovation across public services.
International relations
The IfG monitors the consequences of the UK’s post-Brexit arrangements with the EU and the impact of the Trump presidency on the UK-US relationship.
29 APR 2025
Explainer
Local and mayoral elections 2025
On Thursday, 1 May 2025, local and mayoral elections took place in many parts of England.
28 APR 2025
Project
Spending review 2025
Key things we learnt from Rachel Reeves' first spending review and the trade-offs she faced.
25 APR 2025
Explainer
The Dutch Safety Board
What can the UK learn from the Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid?
25 APR 2025
Podcast
Are Starmer and Badenoch making plans for Nigel?
More in Common's Luke Tryl joins the podcast team to take stock of the polls – and what they might say about the upcoming local elections.
24 APR 2025
Comment
Will the government-backed ‘starting reception’ guide help school readiness?
A new checklist to help parents prepare their child for reception is useful – but must be part of a broader package of support.
23 APR 2025
'How to' guide
Ministers’ ways of working: A guide for private office
This resource for private office teams is a guide for a conversation with your minister about how they want things to work in the office.
23 APR 2025
Explainer
What are the legal aspects of nationalisation?
There are several important legal implications that arise when a government begins the process of nationalising a sector, service or industry.
21 APR 2025
Report chapter
General practice across England: What should the government take away from these findings?
What this government should be looking at as it embarks on its programme of NHS reform, specifically to improve the picture in general practice.
21 APR 2025
Report chapter
General practice across England: The number and type of appointments are related to patient satisfaction
What matters to patients is not the number of appointments that a staff member delivers, but rather the number of appointments that they can access.
21 APR 2025
Report chapter
General practice across England: How patient and staff numbers are related to patient experience
This section looks at which characteristics of practices are associated with higher and lower patient satisfaction.
21 APR 2025
Report chapter
General practice across England: How has patient satisfaction changed around the country?
High-level national trends also obscure some of the variation at a more local level. These are explored in this chapter.
21 APR 2025
Report chapter
General practice across England: Introduction
General practice is vastly different now than it was even at the end of the last decade, and there has been a steep decline in patient satisfaction.
21 APR 2025
Report chapter
General practice across England: Summary
Key findings on how the changes that have been made to general practice have affected its performance.
21 APR 2025
Analysis paper
General practice across England
What does patient satisfaction across England tell us about GPs surgeries' performance?
15 APR 2025
Podcast
What is the role of big suppliers in government procurement?
This special episode of Inside Briefing discusses the role of big suppliers in government procurement.
14 APR 2025
Comment
Did the 2005 reforms lead to better tax policy?
Former HMRC chair Edward Troup looks at the impact of the 2005 O’Donnell reforms.
11 APR 2025
Comment
Donald Trump's revealed trade strategy looks bad news for the UK
The UK may have to pay quite a high price for any deal – and not get that much out of it.
11 APR 2025
Podcast
Trump's tariff turnaround
Economist and author Duncan Weldon joins us in the studio to make sense of the president’s wild economic rollercoaster ride.