Rebalancing Britain should be core to Labour’s political project. But that can’t come at the expense of places like London. By giving richer places the tools to pay for their own infrastructure - and occasionally a push to use them - Labour can focus Treasury resources on rebuilding the rest of the country.

This holds for a wide range of projects in the South East, including turning the Ox-Cam corridor into another Silicon Valley, a fleet of new towns to massively expand housing supply and transport projects like Crossrail 2. These projects should be non-negotiables. This paper is about who will pay for them.

Three major bottlenecks prevent this government from changing Britain: centralised power and wealth in Whitehall and the southeast, unsolved structural pressures on Britain’s public finances, and a rules-bound, incapable state that strangles delivery by itself or others.

This paper does not add to that pile. We aim to be honest about Britain’s predicament, the scale of the response required and why politics has so far proven so incapable of providing answers. These three bottlenecks to progress are large and long-standing. Any serious political project must have an answer to fixing them.

A runway is a several kilometre length of reinforced pavement. Building Heathrow’s first runway took around a year. It is everything else that now takes time.

This paper tries to answer a simple question: could the government speed up the construction of Heathrow’s third runway to such an extent that flights take off before the next election?

In government, Labour has committed to reducing migration. Labour Together is supporting this agenda with a series of papers looking at how to create a migration system that puts country first. In October, we published our first proposal, for an Australian-style National Migration Plan, showing one way Labour could reduce the number of legal migrants while making sure Britain’s economy gets the contributions it needs. Now, in this paper, we turn to how a mandatory, universal, national identity credential - BritCard - can help Britain control illegal migration and secure its borders.

This report, by Labour Together’s Director of Devolution, JP Spencer, sets out a bold vision for how to rebalance the UK economy and create prosperity in every part of the country. It outlines four key recommendations to drive economic growth, improve infrastructure, and boost regional economies, arguing that there is a moral, economic, and political case for doing so.

This report, authored by Jonathan McClory, urges the UK government to adopt a fresh soft power strategy to strengthen Britain’s global influence against the backdrop of geopolitical and economic insecurity. 

The previous government was asleep at the wheel on critical minerals. Its approach was too slow, too general and given too little support. This failure of strategy endangered the UK’s growth, green ambitions and security. The Labour government has an opportunity to fix this in the new critical minerals strategy. This should be closely informed by the upcoming industrial strategy, laser-focused on the UK’s strengths and needs, and supported by the institutions and policy tools to deliver it.

Labour has committed to reducing migration. There are various ways this can be achieved. This paper sets out one way an Australian-style National Migration Plan could work. This is the best answer we have seen to the problem of how to reduce numbers while making sure Britain’s economy gets the contributions it needs.

For the first time, LT has conducted public opinion polling in the twelve current mayoral areas and the two future ones with elections in 2025. We wanted to understand how those who actually experienced devolution felt about it.

Stability has been central to all calls for an industrial strategy. Academics, businesses, and policy-makers have made their case for an industrial strategy. In an increasingly competitive global market, they want certainty to invest and a coherent approach to economic policy-making.

This report, by Sam Freedman, sets out how empowering mayors with greater oversight of the health, education, criminal justice and other public service systems, could help Labour deliver its public services mission. JP Spencer, Director of Devolution Policy at Labour Together, writes a foreword.

Drawing on a multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) of 12,000 people commissioned by Labour Together from YouGov, our analysis of public attitudes reveals that the caucus against housebuilding are smaller than anticipated. In this note, we set out what that means for Labour.

A focus on serving working people is the golden thread that connects Keir Starmer’s Labour and Tony Blair’s, says Labour Together’s Director, Josh Simons.

“The cost-of-living crisis has ended.” So said Andrea Leadsom, a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care, in late March 2024. Her words may come to haunt her.

In this report, we show how far from the truth that triumphalist statement was. The cost-of-living crisis, far from over, is still painfully real for voters across Britain.

In this paper, we explore three pillars which could underpin an effective and popular migration system, showing where Labour is already addressing them and where there are further opportunities to do so.

This report, by Christopher Thornton, argues that British foreign policy can lead the world in the pursuit of peace and the resolution of conflict. Jonathan Powell, formerly chief of staff to the Prime Minister and chief negotiator during the Northern Ireland peace process, writes a foreword.

The first voting intention polling conducted internally by Labour Together finds that Labour are 18 points ahead of the Conservatives. The polling, conducted using Labour Together’s new internal polling capacity, suggests that if there were a general election tomorrow, the Conservative would take 24% of voters, Labour 42% and the Liberal Democrats 10%. Other parties, including Reform UK, would get 12% of the vote.

New analysis by Labour Together has modelled two scenarios which show there is cause for caution despite Labour’s wide lead.