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Demos is a champion of people, ideas, and democracy. We bring people together. We bridge divides. We listen and we understand. We are practical about the problems we face, but endlessly optimistic and ambitious about our capacity, together, to overcome them.
Demos Blog
1M ago
Last week the ONS published new statistics about employment and jobs in the UK – the first time for a number of months due to problems with survey response rates. With the appropriate caveats that the figures are estimates based ..read more
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1M ago
Amidst growing pressures on our public services, politicians across the spectrum are taking a renewed interest in prevention. Keir Starmer has called for an end to short-term ‘sticking plaster’ politics and a shift towards long-term solutions to society’s problems. When ..read more
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1M ago
2023 has seen frequent briefings to the media that inheritance tax is to be cut or abolished altogether. In the end, abolishing inheritance tax was not a feature of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. But with The Telegraph running a major ..read more
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1M ago
In Summer 2023, JRF’s innovative new Insight Infrastructure team commissioned CASM, the digital research unit at the cross-party think tank Demos, to complete an exploratory project examining how people with lived experiences of financial hardship are talking about their experiences ..read more
Demos Blog
4M ago
The Chancellor has set hares running by setting a target to boost public sector productivity growth by 0.5% a year. He wants to do this in order to restrict the growth of public spending as a proportion of the economy ..read more
Demos Blog
5M ago
Demos today launches the Future Public Services Taskforce: a major cross-party initiative to produce a new, public service reform strategy for central government. The government has not had a public service reform strategy since 2011. This has contributed to the ..read more
Demos Blog
6M ago
At this year’s Conservative party conference we’ll once again be holding a range of panel events with expert speakers, including politicians, businesses, civil society leaders, journalists and other experts that bring fresh ideas and perspectives. We’ll be discussing the future ..read more
Demos Blog
6M ago
At this year’s Labour party conference we’ll once again be holding a range of panel events with expert speakers, including politicians, businesses, civil society leaders, journalists and other experts that bring fresh ideas and perspectives. We’ll be discussing the future ..read more
Demos Blog
7M ago
In recent years, devolution in England has become a cross-party political agenda. The government has concluded ‘trailblazer’ devolution deals with the Greater Manchester and West Midlands Combined Authorities (WMCA), and new devolution deals in areas including York and North Yorkshire ..read more
Demos Blog
7M ago
We’ve tried something new. At JRF we are exploring how to make greater contributions to the generation of better and timely insights on poverty, social and economic inequalities, by adopting an ‘infrastructure’ mindset. One of the key aspects of our ..read more