What are the issues causing anxiety in Britain today? How can we understand the pressures as well as the hidden potential in our society? The Condition of Britain is IPPR’s new flagship research programme to help us better understand, as well as overcome, the challenges together.
This paper sets out the priorities for our research, including a range of methods. We want to talk to people across the country to hear their everyday stories, and find out what it would take to relieve some of the strains they are under. We will also look at the latest thinking on key policy and the priorities for politics. Combined with rigorous analysis of the latest data and trends, we hope to generate new insights into the ‘condition of Britain’ today and identify the resources and energies in society which could be mobilised to improve society.