There is a moment in school-based focus groups when something shifts. The pupils realise this is not a lesson. There is no right or wrong answer. No one is trying to catch them out. At first, answers are careful – sometimes polite, sometimes reluctant, sometimes rehearsed. Then someone says something
Among numerous policy suggestions floating around ahead of the Budget is a potential doubling of council tax for those in Council Tax bands G and H – the highest bands in England, representing about 4% of all properties. With the potential to raise over £4.2 billion per annum by the
In the words of Reform UK’s Head of Policy Zia Yusuf at the 2025 Reform Party Conference, Reform is ‘not a party built on views about education’. Instead, they coalesce around, primarily, a desire to reduce net migration. As a result, the nascent party is yet to flesh out a
A new report by Public First finds that meeting London’s target of building 88,000 new homes a year would deliver a step change in economic growth – boosting productivity in the capital by 5.6% in the long term and raising the average Londoner’s take-home pay by £3,700. Combined with the
A new Public First report finds that people are likely to support new housing and other infrastructure development in practice as well as in theory – even if it’s often assumed otherwise. Public First researchers conducted immersive research to understand the balance of opinion in areas across the country, conducting over
A new Public First Report finds that a majority of Brits are in favour of local development, but their views often go unheard by decision makers. The research explores the real balance of public opinion on development, the profiles of those that instinctively support development (‘YIMBYs’) and those that instinctively oppose