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.

Conservative voters are the strongest supporters of replacing the “broken” fuel duty regime with a new system of road-pricing, think-tank research reveals today.

Asylum seekers from a “green list” of countries such as Afghanistan and Syria should get the right to work in the UK as soon they make their claim, a think-tank proposes today.

Responding to Labour's manifesto promise to bring railway franchises into nationalised ownership, SMF research director Nigel Keohane said:

Voters are willing to pay more in tax to fund direct support for low-income households facing soaring energy bills, new polling reveals today.

The overwhelming majority of London businesses say that their workers are directly affected by poverty, new research reveals today.

Key consumer markets became less competitive during the pandemic as customers shopped around less and big suppliers captured a greater market share, new research reveals today.

England’s education and careers system should introduce more ‘character’ development opportunities – building self-belief, determination, and resilience –to prepare young people for the fast-changing economy, says Baroness Morgan, Chair of The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC).