New Economics Foundation

Blog It’s time for interest rates to go green The UK’s overdependence on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable to price shocks, we need the Bank of England and the government to be encouraging green investment By Theo Harris 01 November 2023 Higher...

Blog Pregnant in prison Pregnant women are being forced to give birth in prison, affecting their own and their children’s life chances. Janey Starling explains why no woman should be imprisoned in pregnancy. By Janey Starling 25 October 2023 This...

Blog Lets’s talk up the benefits of taxing carbon Brits support the principle that polluters must pay, but we need to to see the benefits of carbon taxes too By Chaitanya Kumar 23 October 2023 Tax is a simple and effective way of reducing the...

Blog Labour’s promise to build 1.5 million homes can’t be just a numbers game We need to end the UK’s “blandemic” poorly designed housing. New towns must have high quality design at their core By David Pendlebury, Benedikt Stranak 19 October 2023...

Blog What next for the clean energy transition After party conference season, the opportunities for and challenges to a clean energy transition are even clearer By Chaitanya Kumar 13 October 2023 In recent months, both of the main political...

Blog We can’t let culture war push us off track to net zero Rishi Sunak has ripped up the UK’s consensus on net zero, let's pick up the pieces. By Alex Chapman 05 October 2023 The Prime Minister has decisively thrown off his ​“steady as we go”...

Publications “We’re all trying to do one thing: live” The impact of our social security system and how it needs to change, as told by the women who use it By Beti Baraki, Lucille Harvey, Brell Wilson, Emily Mitchell 03 October 2023 Download...

Blog A decade of austerity and growing national debt: why we need to reform the OBR Strengthening the independence of the OBR does nothing to address its detrimental short-termism By Dominic Caddick 27 September 2023 Last Friday Labour announced...

Blog Reducing the stealth subsidy to banks The banking sector is set to receive over £200bn from the Bank of England. Tiering reserves could save the public finances billions. By Dominic Caddick 22 September 2023 While the state has to deal with...

Publications Routes to nature Unlocking local access in England and Wales By Alex Chapman 20 September 2023 Download the report Public understanding of the critical role played by the...