The Government’s promise to cut net immigration to tens of thousands is a “poisoned well” creating problems across British politics and should be abandoned, a think-tank has said.

People living in social housing in London getting poorer even though more of them have jobs, new research for the Peabody housing charity shows today.

The Government has committed “an act of self-harm” by omitting India from a relaxation of visa rules on international students, a think-tank has said.

Artificial intelligence systems will soon be able to predict – and decide – the outcomes of trials, raising the possibility of replacing human judges with computers, a new research paper has suggested.

Companies that share their profits with workers and have a social mission should get a new “Queen’s Award for Enlightened Business Behaviour,” a minister has suggested.

Public sector contracts should no longer be given to the lowest bidder but awarded to “social business” companies that agree to share profits with staff and employ local workers, a leading businessman has said.

Almost 400,000 Londoners with a disability are unemployed and in some boroughs only one in four disabled people is working, new research has revealed.

The £140 Warm Home Discount introduced to help people in fuel poverty can actually trap some low-income households in bad energy deals and must be overhauled, a new report says.

Half of white working-class and black British students in England get into university with vocational qualifications such as BTECs, new research has found.