Prime minister Andy Burnham and mayor of South Yorkshire Oliver Coppard speak at an event following the announcement that English mayors will be able to keep a share of the taxes collected in their ...

Andy Burnham’s decision to create a strengthened Office for the Prime Minister and the Cabinet (OPMC) follows a key recommendation in the IfG’s influential Commission on the Centre of Government.

Government has made great strides in opening itself up to inputs from the UK’s world-leading university sector – but it can do still more. Policy making is at its best when it is open to external ...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum, the IfG has reflected on how leaving the EU has changed UK government. A decade ago, on 23 June 2016, the UK voted to terminate nearly half a century ...

Supporters argued the Brexit would open up opportunities to deregulate in the name of freedom and growth, and remove perceived nonsense like rules on the shape of bananas. But it has not exactly ...

Kelly was a research assistant at the Institute, working on the devolution team. She graduated from UCL in 2016 with a degree in Law, and then completed a Master’s degree in International Political ...

Amid heightened debate, following fossil fuel supply disruptions, Ed Miliband will have to make decisions on the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas projects. This explainer sets out the background to ...

Claiming the UK is ‘ungovernable’ is a dereliction of responsibility, argues Hannah White Governing the UK has become more difficult over the past decade, as a result of major external crises, ...

This is a King’s Speech which aims to please everyone. However, with big questions about whether the government can deliver on its plans, it is a legislative programme which may end up leaving many ...

This case study explores the benefits of a joined-up policy approach, looking specifically at the design and implementation of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy for England The Starmer government came to ...

Plans to overhaul the regulation of audit and financial reporting have long been in development and command a broad consensus. Abandoning them reflects poor prioritisation, says Matthew Gill ...

The abolition of NHS England and the merging of its functions in the Department of Health and Social Care is a huge undertaking. Delivering it successfully could help to simplify accountability, ...