The Social Market Foundation has reacted to the Conservative manifesto, as well as specific policies – including those on housing, cutting taxes, net zero and immigration.

Mutuals – companies owned by their customers and staff – can meet growing public demand for business to do more for society and the environment, a new report shows today.

Britain risks falling behind China and EU in making and selling meat substitutes and other alternative proteins because Whitehall lacks a coherent strategy for their development, a think-tank says today.

Plumbers have been overlooked in the Government’s plans to end the use of gas boilers in British homes, putting the whole Net Zero agenda in jeopardy, a think-tank warns today.

The NHS will collapse without “radical and unpopular” changes including reducing the number of hospitals, setting up treatment hubs run by the private sector and transferring power and funding to local councils, a former health minister says today.

A Government promise to deliver full fibre broadband to every home by 2025 is likely to be missed unless ministers make radical changes to telecoms policy, a new report warns today.