GPs should be barred from taking up new jobs in wealthy areas and directed to work in deprived regions in order to “level up” health inequalities, a think-tank says today.

Tax-free ISA allowances should be cut so money can be used to reward saving by younger people on low incomes, a think-tank says today.

Commentators are forever searching for neat ways to carve up the political universe. Towns vs cities; Remainers vs Leavers; North vs South. Such binary narratives should always come with a health warning: our society is rarely so straightforward.

Rishi Sunak’s government has repeatedly committed itself to fiscal responsibility. Yet that rhetoric of discipline is at odds with reports that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering the largest unfunded fuel duty cut in British history.

This analysis sets out how reforms to alcohol duty could boost pub sales by 100 million pints a year, providing a lifeline to the hospitality industry and reducing harmful drinking.

The Social Market Foundation's response to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's announcement on 17 October 2022 follows below.

Families should be at the heart of a new wave of place-based interventions designed to turn the tide of Britain’s childhood obesity crisis, a think-tank report on adolescent obesity says today.