Profs Lauren Andres and Mike Raco return to AI in planning after giving evidence to the London Assembly on 1 October 2026, and ask what the technology can offer a housing programme framed around hope.

A new report from the UCL Policy Lab, University of Oxford and Greenberg Research seeks to understand some of the key questions defining today’s politics.

A new essay collection from the UCL Policy Lab, exploring the relationship between modern conservatism and the communitarian tradition.

Our partnership with Citizens UK connects our research community directly with local groups across the country, working together for positive change at grassroots level.

To understand Burnhamism, look back to 2010

The government has announced one of the largest shifts of fiscal power to local places in decades. With this, the Lab reflects on why handing power down to regions and communities is central to the go...

Britons want change, but they need a story that makes sense of it. Will Snell, Fairness Foundation, sets out the conception of fairness that can hold the country together.

Bruno Dent, Future Governance Forum, lays out how Burnham can reform the British state in his first hundred days, from No.10 to the Treasury.

James Baggaley reflects on his recent visit to Manchester, and how place-based politics can transform the country, as part of the Lab's Nation of Neighbours project, in partnership with Demos.

First published in our 2025 collection, Britain Renewed: Labour and the Communitarian Tradition, Andy Burnham reflects on place-based governing.

Makerfield, Manchesterism, and the fight over defence spending

New polling delivered by UCL Policy Lab and More in Common shows a close race between Labour and Reform UK in this week's by-election.

The politics of hope, immigration, and much more

How local, national and global action builds a progressive future.

The best of local election analysis

New analysis from UCL Policy Lab and More in Common shows that a failure to respect ordinary people has led voters to desert the established parties in favour of populist challengers.

A new report by the UCL Policy Lab outlines that UK universities must take the lead in renewing their civic and national role if they are to thrive in the years ahead.

On progressive Christianity, the virtue of fiscal prudence, and how to fight inequality

UCL Policy Lab and UCL Economics welcomed Torsten Bell MP to UCL this April to launch the Annual Lecture in Economic Policy.

Progressives are in danger of losing the argument about wealth. Jack Jeffrey, Fairness Foundation, shows how republican political theory might help them win it.

Josh Westerling, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, lays out the features and the limitations of the Labour Government's new employment legislation.