👉 The UK ranks among the bottom 10% globally for biodiversity 👉 Only 53% of the UK's biodiversity remains today 👉 41% of UK species have experienced significant population decline since 1970 📻 Joseph Evans on BBC Scotland ⤵️

Today's National Travel Survey statistics from the Department for Transport reveal a stark mobility divide. The wealthiest in England travel far more than poorest while car dependence is rising. A 🧵

Does the way wealth is currently taxed entrench regional inequality? You bet! Watch out for new IPPR North IPPR report out tomorrow explaining what changes are needed…

🇬🇧 | NEW REPORT: The UK's tax system is fuelling regional inequality. Taxing income more than we tax wealth disproportionately benefits those in the South. This new report sets out a serious of reforms to overhaul our tax system. ippr.org/articles/suppo…

New IPPR North IPPR pre-Budget report on how the tax system can be changed to help rebalance our country. Starting point: undoing the tax advantage of income from wealth over work by aligning Capital Gains Tax with Income Tax. Great work led by Marcus Johns & Henry Parkes.

Wealth is overwhelmingly concentrated in the South East. Our latest report reveals how taxing income from wealth less than income from work deepens the North-South divide. We propose a once-in-a-generation reform to our tax system in this report: ippr.org/articles/suppo…

Latest IPPR North / IPPR report projects that a person in the North of England will have, on average, £210,000 less wealth than someone from the South East by 2030.

📢New report from IPPR & IPPR North Working peoples incomes are taxed more heavily than incomes from wealth benefiting richer areas particularly the South The tax system is accelerating regional inequalities, at the very least we can take our foot off the accelerator A 🧵...

Our new report is calling for capital gains tax to be equalised with income tax. Equalising capital gains tax with income tax would raise £68 billion by 2030. Read more here: ippr.org/articles/suppo…

Excellent new report from IPPR and IPPR North on how our skewed tax system, that favours the richest, exacerbates regional inequality.

Great to see our most recent IPPR North research cited in today's Financial Times A revamped capital gains levy should not tax illusory gains ft.com/content/a92c2f…

Great to see one-word Ofsted grades scrapped in England's schools! We called for this in our November 2023 report by Loic Menzies 👉 ippr.org/media-office/t…

Our new #WomanOfTheNorth report lays bare the unequal challenges faced by women living in the North of England - who live shorter lives, work more hours for less pay and are more likely to be an unpaid carer than women in other regions of England 1/13 healthequitynorth.co.uk/vast-inequalit…

It was brilliant to host an IPPR North roundtable in Leeds today on bottom up green industrial strategy with Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire & Carl Sizer PwC UK & my green industrial colleagues (guros) George Dibb & Marcus Johns.

📚 | NEW REPORT: School exclusions & suspensions are on the rise, and it is disproportionately affecting certain children. Our new report with The Difference looks at the scale & impact of the problem, including the huge cost to the state. ippr.org/articles/who-i…

Today read Ralph Blackburn splash on living standards in #Yorkshire drawing on Office for National Statistics (ONS) stats Analysis from Zoë Billingham IPPR North & myself We need further progress on productivity like #WestYorks & #EastRiding most recently to move dial yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/… #buyapaper

At IPPR North we've long advocated for policy about the North to be 'of the North, by the North, for the North.' Now, northern leaders are using our language in building a new partnership for our region - grasping the reigns of our collective future. np11.org.uk/2024/09/all-ro…