Britain risks more political and social turmoil unless politics and business offer more opportunity and respect to people who do not have a university degree, a former Cabinet minister warns today.

The Government should set a public target for big public companies to increase the number of their shares owned by staff, to give more workers a stake in the economy, a new report says today.

The asylum system needs change – but a new system which gives the UK more control and is humane to refugees is possible within the Refugee Convention, according to the Social Market Foundation in response to Home Secretary’s Washington speech.

Housing Secretary Michael Gove risks renters’ rights and wellbeing by delaying a ban on no-fault evictions based on false claims that Britain’s rental sector would collapse, a think tank warns.

Homeowners selling or letting property should produce a “Flood Performance Certificate” to show how prepared their home is for possible flooding, a think-tank has suggested.