With the launch of their election manifesto earlier today, Labour announced plans for a new expanded fraud strategy to tackle public sector fraud by working with technology companies. Fraud in the UK has reached epidemic proportions. Across government, fraud and error costs between £29.3 and £51.8 billion per year and
There are few more visible manifestations of the changing nature of the British economy than the evolution of our high streets. The rise of online shopping and banking, the squeeze on living standards since the financial crisis and (post-pandemic) the surge in remote working have all taken their toll on
Recently, a clip of Tony Blair on Question Time in 2005 came up on my twitter feed. In it, an audience member quizzes Blair on a Government policy that only allowed people to book GP appointments 48 hours in advance. “Now you can’t get it at all unless it is
“The trains are always delayed. It takes me hours to get to work and I don’t drive.” In South Side Chicago a friendly man is heading home after what he says has been a long day’s work in a downtown restaurant. The shadows are growing longer on an abnormally hot
The last four years have been marked out by uncertainty and upheaval – the pandemic with its associated lockdowns and social distancing measures gave way to a cost of living crisis and soaring inflation. Counterintuitively perhaps, the pandemic saw American households build historically high levels of personal savings but as
Public First conducted new polling for the School Food Review Working Group, researching public views towards free school meals and the potential expansion of free school meals by a future Labour government. Our research found that expanding access to free school meals is popular with voters of all parties, including