Company directors should be put under a new legal duty to turn rising profits into increased wages and training for staff, a think-tank says today.

The Social Market Foundation's response to the Spring Budget 2023 follows below.

The energy crisis is driving a shift in public opinion where a majority of voters now want more generous targeted financial support for households struggling with their finances, new polling reveals today.

A new report by the Social Market Foundation think tank, supported by leading public sector insurer Zurich Municipal, says that councils will have to change how they operate if they are to cope to with a range of challenges and risks facing them and the communities they serve.

Workers losing jobs in the pandemic desperately need a major overhaul of adult skills and training services to help them find new work and avoid falling into poverty, a report says today.

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.

Nearly 7 in 10 (69%) SMEs say that recruiting and developing adequately skilled staff is their biggest barrier to growth, a think tank reveals today.

Standardising discounts given to vulnerable customers on essential products – like water, broadband and energy – can help eliminate postcode lottery in social tariffs.

‘Housing sin taxes’ – levied on vacant homes, ‘house flipping’ and foreign buyers – could be a useful source of revenue, a think tank argues today.