This pamphlet contains a collection of ambitious essays, authored by Labour MPs, The Good Growth Foundation and with an introduction by The Women’s Budget Group, exploring how we come together to ...

Care is fundamental to individual wellbeing as well as to the functioning of the economy and wider public services. However, as a result of marketisation, decades of chronic underfunding and a failure ...

Ahead of tomorrow’s Budget a group of female Labour MPs from the 2024 intake have released a set of essays called: An Unashamedly Female Agenda: A Political Economy for Women. The collection, written ...

Analysis by the UK Women’s Budget Group with and on behalf of the Trades Union Congress, The Fawcett Society, Pregnant Then Screwed, and Movember. The UK’s parental leave system is not fit for purpose ...

Looking at our social security system, this article explores how policies can create the conditions for and compound economic abuse. Economic abuse is a form of intimate partner abuse and coercive ...

On behalf of the Board and staff team at the UK Women’s Budget Group, I would like to say how sorry we are to learn of Debra Newrick’s passing. Debra was a Board member for nearly three years and ...

Though inflation (CPI) has come down, now at 2.9% in the year to July 2026 compared to 3.8% in the year to July 2025, the latest figure shows an increase from 2.6% in the previous month. This increase ...

As we look ahead to the budget later this month, pressures are mounting on the government to reduce the cost of living and improve people’s living standards. And as usual, accusations abound about the ...