The main parties’ manifestos have abandoned intergenerational fairness in bid to win the grey vote, says IF Co-Founder Angus Hanton
Tag: election
IF Manifesto Audit 5: Social Care
How intergenerationally fair are the promises being offered by different parties on social care? IF Junior Researcher Melissa Bui takes a look…
IF Manifesto Audit 4: Housing
David Kingman looks at what the different party manifestos have to say about housing policy ahead of the 2019 UK General Election
IF Manifesto Audit 3: Environment
With the election looming on 12 December, Cameron Leitch (IF placement) details the various environmental policies that parties are offering the electorate in their manifestos, and evaluates them in terms of intergenerational fairness
IF Manifesto Audit 2: Education
With less than a week to go until the 2019 General Election, Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, gives a whistle-stop tour of what the different parties are offering on education – from pre-school childcare through to further and higher education finance
IF Manifesto Audit 1: Mental Health
IF Junior Researcher Melissa Bui looks what different parties are promising on mental health ahead of the 2019 UK General Election
Would new rules requiring voter ID disenfranchise young people?
The recent Queen’s Speech contained the announcement that the government plans to make voter ID compulsory at all future elections, but campaigners have warned that this could disenfranchise certain minority groups, including younger voters. David Kingman examines whether we should be worried about the government’s plans
2019 General Election: have you registered to vote?
With the strong likelihood of there being a general election between now and the end of the year, David Kingman argues that young people are at disproportionate risk of being unable to vote
Intergenerational politics in Australia
In the 2019 election in Australia, the welfare of future generations was the focus of a raft of policy proposals – and from an intergenerational point of view the wrong side won. This might mark a regrettable setback for intergenerational politics as a whole. Report by Danielle Wood (Budget Policy Program Director) and Owain Emslie… Read more »
The Great Political Divide: Britain’s Young and Old
IF’s Rakib Ehsan summarises the findings of the most recent face-to-face British Election Study survey, which further develops the image of Britain’s younger people being more progressive and outward-looking in their general view of the UK’s place in the international system