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Workers report AI is already actively making their jobs worse as well as outright taking their jobs  Paul Nowak says: “AI must be designed, governed and negotiated by and for workers”IPPR calls for new generation of workers’ rights to prevent workers being left powerless in the age of AIA new report from IPPR warns that AI could deepen insecurity and inequality unless workers are given power over…

Artificial intelligence is the latest technology to raise the spectre of human labour becoming obsolete. AI technologies can now perform complex cognitive tasks that were once considered exclusively human. If businesses adopt these technologies at scale to replace human work, this could generate a significant productivity windfall – one that is likely to be unevenly distributed throughout society…

New analysis of today’s NEET figures by IPPR finds that:On current trends, the number of young people who are NEET could rise from around one in eight today to one in six by the end of 2029. The recent rise has been driven mainly by young people who are economically inactive — meaning they are not in work and are not currently looking for work — rather than unemployed young people who are activel…

Responding to the warning from Alan Milburn, Harry Quilter-Pinner, executive director at IPPR, said:  “An entire generation is being let down. Too many young people are being left to drift and face too many barriers to learning or earning. The current system is not doing enough to help them build confidence, gain experience or find a secure route into employment.”“Turning this around will take ac…

Over the past decade, the UK and the countries of the EU have experienced very similar, and deeply troubling, security challenges as a result of the military threat from Russia, disengagement and hostility from the US, and the possibility of economic coercion from China. The UK’s 2025 National Security Strategy specifies a clear way forward, indicating a need for what it calls a “rebalancing” of …

Defence cooperation offers the clearest route to successfully deepening ties with Europe  Europe needs a stronger defence backstop alongside NATO amid geopolitical instability, says IPPRThink tank calls for closer joint military procurement, and industrial coordination across the channelThe UK could play a central role in building a new European Defence Alliance as long-term US security guarantee…

These figures have grown steadily since 2021 and mean around one in eight young people are neither engaging with the labour market nor taking steps to enter it. This recent surge has been driven more by rising inactivity than unemployment.

Social media isn’t one thing: it’s a landscape. It’s not just one place where everyone gets together, we now have all sorts of feeds and chats that show politics in a different light. When people ask what social media is doing to public life, they're really asking a complex messy question about very different platforms. In the UK, people spent the most time on YouTube, Facebook/Messenger, Instagr…

Responding to Rachel Reeves’s speech Harry Quilter-Pinner, executive director at IPPR, said:  “The Chancellor is right to cut costs for families this summer, but the cost-of-living crisis demands much bolder action. The government needs to wage an all-out war on bills.“Ministers should show working people whose side the government is on by capping rents, using competition policy to tackle price g…

IPPR has responded to today’s migration and asylum statistics from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics which reveal that:Net migration in the calendar year 2025 was 171,000, a fall from 331,000 compared to the year before. This is the lowest level of net migration since the Covid-19 pandemic. The fall is primarily driven by a reduction in immigration of non-EU workers and their dep…

The global landscape is changing rapidly. Instability is growing. Power is shifting. Alliances we once took for granted are in flux. New global challenges continue to surface. The result is a more volatile and uncertain world – a world between orders.The UK can no longer afford to do business as usual. This moment demands new thinking, including a clearer sense of what progressive international p…

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

Responding to the latest inflation statistics, William Ellis, senior economist at IPPR, said:  “Headline inflation easing to 2.8 per cent is not expected to continue. The Iran conflict only began at the end of February, and higher oil and gas prices take time to feed through — the real impact will land when Ofgem resets the energy price cap next month.“Without action, IPPR modelling suggests infl…

In terms of the political makeup of the parliament, arguably little has changed: the SNP still lack a majority but continue to hold the dominant position; to their right sits a block of about 30 MSPs; and on the progressive side the SNP faces three smaller parties with which it might seek to do business. But beneath the broad continuity in parliamentary arithmetic lies a worrying change in voter …

All too often citizens are merely spectators as decisions are taken and laws are made in Westminster that shape their lives. This must change. People must feel that they have influence in the collective decision-making endeavour that is democracy. Fixing this is essential, not only to the task of making our politics more equal and fairer but also to the vital mission of restoring faith and trust …

Responding to the latest Climate Change Committee (CCC) report Sam Alvis, associate director at IPPR, said:  “Extreme weather is a growing political problem in the UK. As we’ve seen in Valencia, Los Angeles and elsewhere, when increasingly severe and frequent climate impacts strike, populists are quick to exploit public anger over a lack of preparation, using it to advance their own agenda and we…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENew IPPR Scotland analysis of voting patterns shows the election campaign did little to inspire people in Scotland to go to the ballot box. The researchers suggest policies of progressive parties are drifting away from the values of their voters, particularly on climate and public services.  Comparing turnout at the 2026 and 2021 Holyrood elections, researchers found:On the r…

Rising parental employment in recent decades has not translated into improved financial security for many low-income families, but the government’s new Child Poverty Strategy and its wider Get Britain Working agenda provide a strong foundation to change this. The decision to remove the two-child limit from April 2026 rightly recognises that adequate social security is central for families both in…

Rates of child poverty have tripled among families with two full-time working adults since 2000Children of single parent families are twice as likely to fall into poverty and less likely to escape it than children in couple householdsIPPR and Action for Children call for overhaul of benefits system to support working parentsChildren are now significantly more likely to be growing up in poverty de…

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.