Commentary & Podcasts

Increasing public uptake of electric vehicles is critical to decarbonising transport. In this blog, SMF Senior Researcher Gideon Salutin shows that success depends on expanding the UK’s chargepoint infrastructure to address drivers’ concerns preventing them from switching to EVs.

The question of whether tariffs should be imposed distracts from the real problem: can Western manufacturers build cheap EVs to compete with their Chinese counterparts.

One of the most common mistakes in political strategy is to be fighting the last battle, instead of preparing for the new one. With this in mind, here are five new strategic battles that I think will shape the first six months for Labour.

In this blog, Stuart Hudson – former CMA Director of Strategy – argues that an incoming Labour government will need competitive markets to drive growth – and this means it will have to navigate three trade-offs in its industrial strategy.

Universal job guarantee is a government policy that ensures every citizen who wants employment can obtain a job. In this blog, Jake Shepherd interviews University of Oxford economists Maximilian Kasy and Lukas Lehner to discuss the benefits of a successful job guarantee scheme in Austria, and its implications for UK policymakers.

With immigration set to be one of the key issues of the election campaign, Jonathan Thomas sets out the similarities and differences between Labour and Conservatives on immigration policy - and how they could change during the campaign.