Political Economy
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Fostering Coordination to Bridge the UK's Regional Disparities: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
Different policy approaches to achieving one of the key goals that Rachel Reeves set out in her Mais lecture in 2024.
- Labour Party
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The Puzzling Persistence of the Hostile Environment
Why have hostile environment policies proven so durable despite their indiscernible effect on meeting immigration control targets and their generation of a significant scandal?
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Immigration
- Racism & Antisemitism
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‘Full-Fat, Semi-Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit
Examining the political economy of immigration policy.
- Immigration
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Repairing the United Kingdom’s Asylum System
Everyone can agree that the asylum system is broken. There is somewhat less consensus on how to repair it.
- Immigration
- Racism & Antisemitism
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After Neoliberalism: Economic Theory and Policy in the Polycrisis
If we aren't living in a crisis of western capitalism, we are surely living in a crisis in the promise held out by it.
- Trade
- Populism
- Progressive Politics
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The puzzling persistence of the hostile environment
Why have hostile environment policies proven so durable despite their indiscernible effect on meeting immigration control targets and their generation of a significant scandal?
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Racism & Antisemitism
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The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection
Who is allowed to come to the UK through the ‘safe and legal routes’?
- Immigration
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How does Labour Intend to Achieve Economic Growth? A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
The new Labour government's overriding priority is economic growth—and chancellor Rachel Reeves's March 2024 Mais lecture is the clearest statement of how they intend to achieve it.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
- Labour Party
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A Speech to Win an Election: A Response to Rachel Reeves’s Mais Lecture
Giving a statement of economic policy is always fraught with danger for any opposition politician and even more so for a Labour politician.
- Labour Party
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Changing Attitudes, Changing Coalitions: The Politics of Immigration before and after Brexit
For the first time, voters who see immigration as an opportunity outnumber those who see it as a threat.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Immigration
- Brexit
