Having spent almost 20 years of my career at Westminster among politicians, journalists and officials, I’m struck by how political conversation is so utterly dominated by people who did A-levels and then went to university.

10 Downing Street has a new tenant.

The status of buses, and their users, has taken a battering of late.

The UK has a wage progression problem – nearly 5 million employees are on low pay and 8 million working age adults and their children who live below the poverty line are in a household where somebody works.

In our latest, Ask the Expert seminar, we heard from Professor Jim Watson, Director of UK Energy Research Centre, on how the UK can continue to reduce carbon emissions whilst paying more attention to the fair distribution of costs and benefits associated with becoming to a low carbon economy.

As part of the latest in our Ask The Expert series, held partnership with the ESRC, a part of UK Research and Innovation, the SMF brought together three leading voices in the fight for reforming mental health policy in the UK.

Here are some of the policies the SMF believes that any prime minister, of any party, should implement in order to deliver fair markets and better public services.

The recent House of Lords report on intergenerational fairness has proposed a range of policies aimed at providing fairer taxation and distribution of benefits across age groups in the UK.

Access to university is an important political issue, but this is only the beginning of the story.