Sentences with phrase «of ippr»

But they must not be tempted to follow the model of the IPPR.

John Prescott has defended Ed Miliband's right to dismiss the work of the IPPR think - tank, declaring in a Sunday newspaper: «These wonks can be pretty precious.»

The work of the IPPR and others is showing that it's the centre left that is best placed to answer the big challenges of the twenty - first century:

Lord Ashdown, co-chair of the IPPR thinktank's commission on national security which delivered its interim report today, warned the transfer of power from west to east and the growth of lawless spaces presented serious challenges to the changing international system.

Director of IPPR North Ed Cox explores the opportunities and threats of an experiment in local democracy

The Centre for Cities, part of the IPPR think tank, yesterday said Blackpool should win because it was most in need of the regeneration boost a super-casino would bring, saying Greenwich - the other favourite - already had the London 2012 Olympics.

Not exact matches

As IPPR's new report into political inequality shows, less than half of 18 — 24 - year - olds voted, compared to nearly four - fifths of the over-65s, while three - quarters of «AB» individuals cast a ballot, against just over half of «DE» registered voters.

Nick, But when do ex-jihadis (about 29 years old), who have written of how they were close associates of the jailed Glasgow bomber, and who have never contacted the Fabians or IPPR, become experts on liberal - left think - tanks in the view of columnists for a major liberal newspaper?

For example, polling for IPPR showed that a striking 63 per cent of «DE» individuals think that it serves their interests badly, while «AB» voters are evenly split.

Commenting on the IPPR report Vocational Education in English Schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «What is becoming increasingly clear is that Michael Gove's reforms are plain wrong.»

I have just recently writing a long essay about the consequences of Thatcherism for a journal issue on the 30th anniversary of 1979 which the ippr are to publish next month, at which point you will be welcome to debate and indeed take issue with my own views on her economic and political legacy.

This post is part of our Great Charter Convention series, hosted in collaboration with Open Democracy, IPPR and the University of Southampton.

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

This interview appears in the upcoming issue of Juncture, IPPR's journal for rethinking the centre - left.

Cutting unemployment should become an explicit goal of governments for the first time since the 1970s, an IPPR report has concluded.

Established think - tanks across the political spectrum such as the Fabian Society, ippr, Demos, Policy Exchange, the Social Market Foundation, Civitas and so on will make a point of stating who the funder of any piece of work or any event is.

Mr Miliband confirmed that Labour would embrace the IPPR's plan to end out - of - work benefits for 18 -22-year-olds without the skills needed to get a job.

OurKingdom, together with Politics in Spires, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention.

Osborne's boasts that impressive progress has been made ahead of the review were played down by Tony Dolphin, the chief economist of centre - left thinktank IPPR.

A recent research project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

By drawing on historical and international experiences of taxing wealth and providing new analysis of the potential fiscal and distributional impacts of reform, the IPPR research aims to provide a more balanced picture of the scope for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

It makes extensive use of the new IPPR wealth tax model, the first of its kind to provide detailed data on the distributional impact of wealth taxes.

We hope in future to improve the IPPR wealth tax model, which is not able at present to model the impact of land value and inheritance tax options.

The IPPR wealth tax model allows us to consider the impact of a property tax.

The IPPR research models the effects of a flat - rate 0.5 percent annual tax on the gross value of all residential property owned by private individuals, with no threshold or tax - free allowance.

As the IPPR has shown in its detailed tracking of attitudes, the felt asymmetry of the current devolution has become more and more salient over the last decade.

The IPPR report considers a wide range of other possible reforms, including the Liberal Democrat idea of a «mansion tax», reforms to Stamp Duty to make it more progressive, and an annual tax on net wealth (rather than just property wealth).

Miliband argues the IPPR report shows that even when there is no money to spend radical reform can be started in the fields of health, child care, welfare, social care and housing.

«The autumn statement will mark a crucial moment in the economic course of our country,» he told thinktank IPPR.

The Labour leader, struggling with poor personal poll ratings, will be responding to a major report by the IPPR setting out as many as 30 radical measures to rebuild public faith in politics and public institutions in an era of austerity.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, has commented on the report by IPPR into the funding of schools in the north of England.

A recent IPPR survey of young people found first contact with pornography typically comes between the ages of 13 and 15.

The ippr report, due to be published in July, recommends civil servants be made accountable for their performance, and ministers made accountable for policy and resources - a clarification of roles it says is badly needed.

«It is noticeable Osborne was bragging a bit about how well he's done but when you look down the list of departments, four of them are administrative departments,» IPPR's chief economist Tony Dolphin told Politics.co.uk.

As Rick Muir, whose research at the IPPR think - tank has closely influenced Labour's policy development, puts it: «Instead of these budgets being salami - sliced at the centre, you pool the budget down to the local level and then they can make more rational sense of it.»

According to the Guardian, «the essays, brought together by the IPPR thinktank, also point out that Labour first devised the idea of a points - based system for economic migrants in 2000, but took until 2008 to bring it into being».

Matthew Elliott, Campaign Director of NO to AV, has accused the IPPR of indulging in «push polling» to get the answers they want and provide a bogus result:

In the Sunday papers there are also some figures from a YouGov poll for IPPR in the Observer *, which asked how likely people were to vote for each party, giving us an idea of the core vote and the ceiling for each party.

The IPPR seems to have waited until Theresa May's immigration announcement was out of the way before launching a series of essays by senior Labour figures on the last government's record on the matter.

Sources at the IPPR said that the Labour leadership was aware of the planned inquiry and Mandelson's role.

In his first post-election political move, Lord Mandelson has agreed to chair an inquiry into the future of globalisation for the left of centre thinktank the IPPR — an inquiry that is likely to be influential on Labour's policy review.

The IPPR also feels that unless a new, more credible model of globalisation is developed, the forces for protectionism will grow in the UK, as well as in the US.

The new IPPR director, Nick Pearce, is a former head of the No 10 policy unit and was instrumental in asking Mandelson to take up the inquiry based on his knowledge of the former business secretary's thinking.

«Housing policy has been piecemeal and disjointed across various departments under governments of all colours,» IPPR continued,» [and] many of the problems in English housing are deeply embedded.»

Research from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests that pensioners living in poverty could be helped off the breadline if they downsize their home or take out a form of equity release scheme.

IPPR, the Left Foot Forward blog, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation are set to publish a collection of essays on Monday expanding upon their preferred growth strategy.

During a lengthy conversation with Cohen, on which he based part of his article, I suggested that neither the IPPR nor Fabian Society would have published my recent pamphlet for Policy Exchange which outlined a model for engagement with Muslim groups based on normative British values.

«There are almost a million «asset - rich income - poor» pensioners - those living in big houses but on small incomes,» said IPPR's head of social policy, Jim Bennett.

However recent IPPR polling (to be published shortly) finds large - scale support for extra requirements placed on childminders: three - quarters (73 per cent) of childminders wanted some extra requirements, and of those almost half (45 per cent) thought childminders should be required to hold a relevant level 3 qualification within two years of registration.

Commentators including Parliament's Energy and Climate Change Committee and IPPR have argued that the only logical solution is for the UK to scrap the CPF and push for a high carbon price across the whole of the EU instead.