Andy Burnham delivered his first conference speech as Prime Minister in Liverpool yesterday, promising a sweeping expansion of public services and a fresh look at Brexit, to warm reviews from the hall...

Podcast Episode · Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · 30 September · 36min

Assessing the ‘perception gap’ between experience and trust among voters in England

RESEARCH SUMMARY The National Rally in France continues to be in pole position for the next Presidential election in 2027 – whether led by Le Pen or Jordan Bardella. While Le Pen is most known, Bardel...

An intensive research project in France finds the far right on the march, with voters viewing the political center as vapid and discredited.

Our polling reveals a sense of despair among a group we call the ‘worried workers’. Here is how Burnham can allay their fears

Comment la gauche peut-elle renouer avec les classes populaires et moyennes dans un contexte marqué par la montée des populismes ?

Caroline Wheeler of the i newspaper assesses the latest developments at Westminster.

Keir Starmer's former director of policy Claire Ainsley says Reform UK 'promise the earth on the doorstep and pose as the people’s champions, yet their policies and actions tell a different story'

Tim Shipman and Claire Ainsley from the Progressive Policy Institute join Patrick Gibbons to reflect on Labour's party conference as it draws to a close in Liverpool. This conference has been received...

INTRODUCTION: A BREAKDOWN IN TRUST  Listening to swing voters in Pittsburgh, Brandenburg, and Accrington, we heard the same story over and over. Frustration, even anger, with the politicians they had ...

Stretched voters have never been more disaffected and are searching for answers beyond traditional parties

Jill Rutter, Claire Ainsley and Sam Freedman join Hannah White to weigh up the government’s highs and lows – and what comes next.

Join us to hear former US congressman Tim Ryan share his experiences of frontline US politics.

Centre-left parties the world over are lamenting the loss of their heartland, as low paid, working-class and non-graduate voters defect to the right. Claire Ainsley was a key aide to the UK Prime Min...

The first half of the 2020s has been a turbulent period in global politics, with the Covid pandemic, surging inflation, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the fall and return of Donald Trump. Th...

Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?

Last month’s federal election in Germany, which took place at a moment of significant global tension, has attracted international attention.

Sonia Sodha of The Observer assesses the latest developments at Westminster.

WASHINGTON — Today, Ed Gresser, Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), issued the following statement in response to President Trump imposi...

A second Trump presidency compels the centre left to chart a new course.

Is British politics today too complicated to be understood in terms of left and right?

Introduction WILL MARSHALL, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF PPI President-elect Donald Trump believes Americans have given him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate to govern.” Like so much of what he says,...

Two former senior advisers to Labour analyse the clear messages from US voters’ preference for Trump

Recorded live at the Centre for Progressive Policy’s Inclusive Growth Conference on 28th November, this special episode The Power Test looks at where we are six months into the new Labour government a...

An exceptional panel of experts with Sir John Curtice FBA, Claire Ainsley and Professor Ben Ansell FBA answer your questions about the new political landscape.

Claire Ainsley is a stalwart of left-wing politics. Formerly an executive director at social change organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, she is currently leading a project on the renewal of th...

When Donald Trump called Keir Starmer hours after winning the US election, he did so via the UK prime minister’s mobile phone rather than the secure landline Downing Street typically uses for such con...