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On 15 April, Social Market Foundation Director Ian Mulheirn took part in a Political Quarterly debate on the social market framework in public policy.

Social Market Foundation Director, Ian Mulheirn, is to step down later this year to take up a senior role at the leading economic consultancy Oxford Economics.

On 5 February 2013 Michael Gove delivered a speech entitled “The Progressive Betrayal” to the Social Market Foundation. A recording of the event, text from the speech and tweets from...

On 21 November the SMF brought together Lord Heseltine and Chuka Umunna MP to discuss industrial policy. The events was chaired by Evan Davis and introduced by SMF Chair Mary Ann Sieghart.

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP has today delivered his third and final lecture marking the 70th anniversary since the publications of the Beveridge report.

The Social Market Foundation was last night named Prospect Magazine's 2012 Think Tank of the Year at the publications's respected annual think tank awards in London.

Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt spoke at the Social Market Foundation's annual justice conference on "Reviewing the Rehabilitation Revolution".

Less than a week ago, I wrote in a post on my blog: “So there is something we can do with fiscal policy, without increasing government debt. Why does hardly anyone talk about this?” Two days ago Ian Mulheirn from the Social Market Foundation published a d

Policy Exchange has previously argued must start an evidence-based debate around growth in the UK and consider the long-term future of the UK economy, rather than focusing on short-term politics. The SMF’s paper Osborne’s Choice makes a constructive contr