The most worrying news to come out of the Bank today was its latest forecast for inflation, which is now set to peak at 4.9 per cent in Q2 2027. As a result, real private-sector earnings growth is ...

Worrying global developments loom over the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) outlook. Borrowing is up by £11 billion a year on average (prior to the Chancellor’s policy announcements) entirely ...

Today (Monday) the Resolution Foundation has announced that Louise Hellem has been appointed as its new Deputy Chief Executive and will start on 5 th January 2027.

This chapter examines how changes in the labour market over the past 10 years have affected attitudes to work, and what these attitudes might mean for three persistent woes in the British labour ...

This briefing note assesses the Autumn 2026 Budget, the first from the new Chancellor, delivered against a backdrop of war in the Middle East, a fresh energy price shock and a weaker fiscal outlook.

The UK’s housing market is not delivering for low-to-middle income families. Families are spending more of their income on housing and getting less for their money; fewer families are enjoying the ...

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Employment has fallen over the past two years and is substantially lower than it was before the pandemic. Perhaps surprisingly given its central place in policy debates, participation is essentially ...

The Government’s long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy is due next month, close to, or contemporaneous with, the Autumn Budget. There have been some welcome announcements already: the over-indexation of ...

Improving employment outcomes for disabled people is essential not just for raising living standards across Britain, but for supporting economic growth, reducing inactivity due to ill health, and ...

On the whole, the 2020s has been a disastrous decade for UK productivity growth. But an under-discussed revival appears to be underway. While the much-maligned Labour Force Survey’s headline number is ...