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Where did all the voters go? 📺 IPPR's Dr Parth Patel tells the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee that we are getting awfully close to the tipping point where elections lose legitimacy because the majority did not take part.
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Our final
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event of the day! We are discussing how the left can take the fight to the populist right, with: 👉 David Lammy 👉
@parth0.bsky.social
👉
@emmanorris.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/yEPR5Oa...
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Taking the fight to the populist right: a new left for a new age
YouTube video by Institute for Public Policy Research
https://www.youtube.com/live/yEPR5OaCw08?si=XFdAjRUI80T5ST1d
about 15 hours ago
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🗺️This evening at
#Lab25
| From safe routes to settled lives: what is Labour’s approach to humanitarian pathways? 17:00–18:15 - Arena Room Dee, ACC Liverpool Speakers: 👉
@tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social
👉 Frank Sharry 👉 Mubeen Bhutta 👉 Abdulrahman Bdiwi Chaired by
@marleymorris.bsky.social
about 16 hours ago
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🏘 At
#Lab25
| simply about supply? Defining the housing crisis and solutions to end it 🕒 15:15–16:30 - Arena Room Dee, ACC Panel: 👉
@emily4mk.bsky.social
👉
@rachelblakemp.bsky.social
👉 Victoria Spratt 👉
@mattdownie.bsky.social
about 18 hours ago
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We’re delighted to welcome Simon Steeden to our board of trustees. As a leading charity lawyer, he brings expertise in governance, campaigning, and social impact. Learn more about Simon 👉
www.ippr.org/profile/simo...
about 18 hours ago
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We’re thrilled to welcome broadcaster, columnist, and political commentator
@ayeshahazarika.bsky.social
to our board of trustees. Ayesha brings a wealth of insight and energy to our mission - read more here 👉
www.ippr.org/profile/ayes...
about 18 hours ago
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🚗 watch live at
#Lab25
| How can transport support both economic growth and everyday lives? 🕜 13:30–14:45 ⏤ Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool, or online at
www.youtube.com/live/wkwb_P-...
Featuring: 👉 Lilian Greenwood MP 👉 David Skaith 👉 Maya Singer Hobbs
about 19 hours ago
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🩺 Next up at
#Lab25
| Can the government deliver its long-term health mission? 🕜 13:30–14:45 ⏤ Arena Room Dee, ACC Liverpool With: 👉 Dr Zubir Ahmed MP 👉 Dr Sonia Adesara 👉 Peter Babudu Chaired by Sebastian Rees
about 20 hours ago
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📚 Also happening now at
#Lab25
- Inside and outside the school gates: How can we give all children the best start
www.youtube.com/live/Qb6EsRR...
Panel: 👉 Georgia Gould MP 👉 Sarah Smith MP 👉 Dr Jo Casebourne 👉 Ed Davies Chaired by Avnee Morjaria
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Watch now at
#Lab25
- Artificial Britain: Will AI fracture the public sphere or revive democratic debate? 🤖https://www.youtube.com/live/C_7BTe5Ovhk?si=i3BMmzuBuv2vwKN0 Arena Room Dee, ACC Liverpool Featuring: 👉 Matt Rogerson 👉 Azzurra Moores 👉 Roa Powell Chaired by IPPR’s Carsten Jung
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about 22 hours ago
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LabourList
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4/7 🇺🇲🌉🇬🇧 Join LabourList,
@ippr.org
and
@thirdwayenergy.bsky.social
for our expert panel on the implications of Starmer’s Trump policy, both at home and abroad. Featuring
@jsfreed.bsky.social
,
@joshsimonsmp.bsky.social
, and
@laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social
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Tune in now!
#Lab25
| What does Labour want to achieve on living standards?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22h7...
With: 👉 Graeme Downie MP 👉 Luke Murphy MP 👉 Megan Kenyon 👉 Dame Clare Moriarty Chaired by Professor Ashwin Kumar
about 23 hours ago
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🚨 Rise and shine! Join us at
#Lab25
for 'Mobilising climate finance' 🕘 9:00–10:15 ⏤ Arena Room Dee, ACC Liverpool Featuring: 👉 Rt Hon Baroness Chapman of Darlington 👉 Svetlana Chigozie Onye 👉 Jamie Drummond 👉 Dr Philip Goodwin Chaired by IPPR's Laura Chappell
about 24 hours ago
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💡 Coming up at
#Lab25
| IPPR’s Big Ideas Debate: How to be an “insurgent government”? 🕒 17:30–19:00 📍 Education Area 3, Museum of Liverpool With: 👉 @stephenkb 👉 @pollymackenzie 👉 Zoë Billingham 👉 Jane Gingrich 👉 Matthew McGregor 👉 Sacha Hilhorst
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🚨 Kicking off at
#Lab25
| IPPR’s first fringe event starts at 2pm with a brilliant panel featuring: 👉
@joshsimonsmp.bsky.social
👉 Wayne Swan 👉 Claire Ainsley 👉
@harryqp.bsky.social
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“I think progressives need to pick some fights. That's both because it demonstrates whose side you're on and it demonstrates your values” - @davidlammy echoes @harry_qp ’s latest report. Read it here
www.ippr.org/articles/ins...
#GPA2025
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Insurgent government: How mainstream parties can fight off populism and rebuild trust in politics | IPPR
As a result, mainstream parties are seeking to innovate to address these concerns. One proposal is for these mainstream governments to become ‘insurgent’.
https://www.ippr.org/articles/insurgent-government
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IPPR’s Laura Chappell, associate director for international policy, discussed how we deliver security in a volatile world with John Healey, UK secretary of defence, and Jon Finer, former US deputy national security advisor
#GPA2025
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Action from leaders is at the core of building a progressive patriotism - prime minister of Iceland, Kristrún Frostadóttir
#GPA2025
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“You may have noticed that this city isn't the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe”. PM Starmer welcomes attendees to London
#GPA2025
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“You may have noticed that this city isn't the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe”. PM Starmer welcomes attendees to London
#GPA2025
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“You may have noticed that this city isn't the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe”. PM Starmer welcomes attendees to London
#GPA2025
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[email protected]
on the Global Progress Action Summit. Tune in live here:
www.youtube.com/live/3wK5LaM...
#GPA2025
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Prime Minister @keir_starmer takes the stage. “It is now time for social democrats to confront directly some of the challenges and some of the lies that have taken root in our societies” Watch live:
www.youtube.com/live/3wK5LaM...
#CAP2025
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“You cannot stop migration” - Diego Rubio, director of the cabinet of the prime minister, Spain, highlights the need for a focus on safe routes rather than stemming migration
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Harry Quilter-Pinner introduces the summit alongside Labour Together ‘s Matt Upton and CAP Action’s Johan Hassel - arguing the case for more bold, forward-thinking and creative ideas to spark a progressive renewal
#GPA2025
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The Global Progress Action Summit is kicking off very shortly and is being live-streamed! Watch here:
www.youtube.com/live/3wK5LaM...
#GPA2025
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🌍| NEW BLOG: as day 2 of the Global Progress Action Summit begins, world leaders & thinkers gather to discuss how we can reimagine the future and spark a progressive renewal. Read the vision behind the summit:
ippr.org/articles/progressive-renewal-global-progress-action-summit
#GPA2025
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🚨 | NEW REPORT: Our research shows anti-establishment sentiment has doubled in last 50 years – half of voters now reject mainstream politics. Traditional parties face an existential threat. To survive, they must “go insurgent” writes
@harryqp.bsky.social
. Read here:
www.ippr.org/articles/ins...
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http://www.ippr.org/articles/insurgent-government
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🚨 The Global Progress Action Summit is underway in London. World leaders, progressive thinkers & top strategists from nearly 40 countries are coming together to chart new ground on security, fair growth, migration & solidarity.
@americanprogressaction.org
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#LabourTogether
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#GPA2025
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Sam Alvis
6 days ago
The 6th Carbon budget led by the tories passed parliament with consensus. But a Labour govt will need to deliver the plan to meet it - in a world where the political consensus (if not the public one) has gone. Me for
@ippr.org
on how to negotiate that challenge
www.ippr.org/articles/six...
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The sixth carbon budget: The first plan without consensus | IPPR
It was initiated by Labour, and built on by the Conservatives, with the SNP, Greens and Lib Dems pushing only to go faster. This drove cross-party agreemen
https://www.ippr.org/articles/sixth-carbon-budget-first-without-consensus
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LabourList
8 days ago
8/13 🇺🇲🌉🇬🇧 Join LabourList,
@ippr.org
and
@thirdwayenergy.bsky.social
for an expert panel on the implications of Starmer’s Trump policy, both at home and abroad. Featuring
@jsfreed.bsky.social
and
@joshsimonsmp.bsky.social
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Sam Alvis
7 days ago
New piece from me on the
@ippr.org
blog - on how the politics of October's 6th Carbon Delivery Plan look very different to before
www.ippr.org/articles/six...
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The sixth carbon budget: The first without consensus | IPPR
It was initiated by Labour, and built on by the Conservatives, with the SNP, Greens and Lib Dems pushing only to go faster. This drove cross-party agreemen
https://www.ippr.org/articles/sixth-carbon-budget-first-without-consensus
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🎧 New Talking Inclusion episode! Dr Susana Castro Kemp (
@ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social
) &
@mmulholland.bsky.social
speak on what England can learn from global SEND systems, from Finland’s early-intervention model to the power of family
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Talking Inclusion… With Geoff Barton
Education Podcast · A podcast from the IPPR Inclusion Taskforce What does truly inclusive education look like, and how can we make it better? Hosted by Geoff Barton, former general secretary of the…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-inclusion-with-geoff-barton/id1834397941
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📺 LIVE AT LIB DEM CONFERENCE | Driving the prevention revolution from day one: Investing in young people’s health, in partnership with
@impurbanhealth.bsky.social
, with: -
@dannychambers.bsky.social
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@pollymackenzie.bsky.social
- Laurie Lee -
@sebrees1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/7vwmjId...
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Lib Dem conference 2025 | Driving the prevention revolution: Investing in young people's health
YouTube video by Institute for Public Policy Research
https://www.youtube.com/live/7vwmjIdWXUM?si=G4XROQnmFbLgJwUH
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Fantastic to see
@libdems.org.uk
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social
announce they are adopting IPPR's policy for a tax on bank windfall profits. A targeted levy would rectify the bungled implementation of quantitative easing & provide funds for cost of living policies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lib Dems call for bank windfall tax to fund green energy home loans - BBC News
Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper says bank profits could fund solar panels, heat pumps and insulation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg00k8nwgwo.amp
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📺 TUNE IN LIVE NOW | Lifting living standards: How bold action can unlock economic and political benefits, with: -
@johnmilnehorsham.bsky.social
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@bobbywdean.bsky.social
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@luketryl.bsky.social
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@daisy-sands.bsky.social
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@henryippr.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/yPtOvxB...
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Lib Dem conference 2025 | Lifting living standards: How bold action can unlock benefits
YouTube video by Institute for Public Policy Research
https://www.youtube.com/live/yPtOvxB8h9E?si=d1fFwb4Jc6GR1GQz
9 days ago
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Emma Norris
9 days ago
Enjoyed talking with
@markpackuk.bsky.social
@calummillerld.bsky.social
@greenmirandahere.bsky.social
this morning about how progressives can fight right-wing populism: root politics in place, listen to what really matters in people’s lives and show courage on reform when systems are failing.
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Zoë Billingham
9 days ago
Great to see senior Labour figures now directly endorsing this proposal to undo the two-child limit & help reduce child poverty in the UK.
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Morgan Vine
9 days ago
If you're at
@libdems.org.uk
conferenece, come and join
@independentage.bsky.social
and
@ippr.org
today at 11:30 at the Highcliff Mariott Hotel to learn more about the challenges older
#renters
face and some of the solutions that could help
#LDconf
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IPPR's conference season kicks off at the Lib Dems with a fringe on populism, with: -
@markpackuk.bsky.social
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@calummillerld.bsky.social
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@greenmirandahere.bsky.social
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@emmanorris.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/e_PBCpz...
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Lib Dem conference 2025 | The antidote to populism: Building the centre ground in a divided age
YouTube video by Institute for Public Policy Research
https://www.youtube.com/live/e_PBCpz1SRk?si=ECQ11HRad6nnX35h
9 days ago
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🎧 New episode of Talking Inclusion... with @RealGeoffBarton is live! Too many families face an adversarial system to secure SEND provision. Georgina Ellis (@UnitySchoolsP) lays out how collaboration can replace conflict. 👉
podcasts.apple.com/ug/podcast/t...
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Talking Inclusion… With Geoff Barton
Education Podcast · A podcast from the IPPR Inclusion Taskforce What does truly inclusive education look like, and how can we make it better? Hosted by Geoff Barton, former general secretary of the…
https://podcasts.apple.com/ug/podcast/talking-inclusion-with-geoff-barton/id1834397941
9 days ago
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Ed Davey
11 days ago
When I was young, being a carer simply wasn’t talked about. We’ve come a long way since then, but government still all too often ignores the millions of carers across Britain. I was proud to write the foreword to this IPPR report calling for real and transformative change.
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Abby Jitendra
11 days ago
Excited to share a new report I've written for
@ippr.org
's Decade of National Renewal project. We are all living longer but policy isn't meeting the scale of the current - or future - challenge. Progressives have a generational opportunity to shape the future of a vital public service. (1/
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Britain’s care system is running on unpaid labour — and most of it falls on women. Read the report by
@jrf-uk.bsky.social
's
@abbyabhaya.bsky.social
here:
www.ippr.org/articles/who...
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[email protected]
has been a carer for his mum, his nanna & now his son. As he says, most care isn’t in care homes but in our homes, given by families. We’re a nation of carers — but govt rarely sees it that way. Read his foreword to our new report:
www.ippr.org/articles/who...
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🚨 | NEW REPORT: As demand for adult social care rises, our systems are underfunded, unfair & unsustainable. This new paper from
@abbyabhaya.bsky.social
sets out how progressives can build a care system fit for the future. Read here:
www.ippr.org/articles/who...
11 days ago
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The Bank of England was right to ease up on quantitative tightening — it had been adding needless pressure to gilt yields amid global strains. In fact, it should go further and halt gilt sales altogether says
@carsjung.bsky.social
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IPPR North
12 days ago
📺Yesterday our
@zoebillingham.bsky.social
addressed the devolution bill committee. 👀Scrutiny is vital to the future of devolution. Local and mayoral accounts committees are essential for strengthening accountability and enabling further devolution of power and resources. Watch her here: 👇
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Pranesh Narayanan
13 days ago
The UK isn't close to broke but it does have a problem with fiscal drama. Tax rises will help - higher revenues will mean that HMT is less under pressure from chaotic financial markets, and the UK economy is more stable. Pleased to be quoted in
@politicshome.bsky.social
by
@nadinebh.bsky.social
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Zoë Billingham
14 days ago
This afternoon I am giving evidence to the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill Committee. The Bill covers v helpful ground but needs to go further on fiscal devolution, protections for devolution, accountability & representation of political leaders.
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Independent Age
14 days ago
📢 We'll be discussing renting in later life with @ippr.org at
#LDConf
on Sunday Older renters are among the most likely to face poverty in later life and face challenges that leave them at risk. We need change. Ask your MP to join us:
https://campaigns.independentage.org/page/177314/action/1
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