This post is by former MEP Michael Hindley. He is now trade policy adviser to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).  Consideration of th...

This post is by Andy Jordan, Charlie Burns and Viviane Gravey, co-chairs of the ESRC funded Brexit & Environment network. The EU has mostly exerte...

Recent research has shown that the number of people who own their own homes is at a 30 year low and, with growing anxiety about young people being una...

On 13 November, we invited the EU’s former director general of DG Energy, Sir Philip Lowe, to speak to a small specialist audience about the likely...

Should we worry that the UK will crash out of the EU without a deal and in an atmosphere of acrimony and ill will? That was the question I recently as...

George Osborne gave Philip Hammond what is known in sport as a hospital pass: an economic plan based on the UK returning to pre-2008 productivity grow...

In British politics, governing is as much performance art as it is accounting. Even ‘Fiscal Phil’, that most studious scrutiniser of the spreadshe...

“Could you elaborate on how women can access the respective climate funds that your organisations manage?” It was a straightforward question from...

It’s so often the case that environmental issues are overlooked in parliament, squeezed in time and overshadowed by other priorities. But last night...

This post is by Sam Hall, senior research fellow at Bright Blue One of the most striking features of the government’s recently published Clean growt...