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Last week’s general election returned the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, a heavy defeat for Labour, and an unobstructed path towards taking Britain out of the EU. What now?

What have the two main parties promised for the social economy? Ahead of Thursday’s vote, Social Investment Business CEO Nick Temple picks apart the detail and offers his analysis of what matters.

The UK’s social investment sector is urged to harness potential of gender lens investing, students say no to fossil fuel investing in the US and greenhouses prove a life line to smallholder farmers in India.

Across the UK people headed to polling stations this week, including in the capital. NPC reveals how the charity sector has changed during Boris Johnson's reign as London mayor. Elsewhere, the Australian government's budget addresses social investment.

With further public sector cuts expected in the next five years, those responsible for delivering public services must think and act like entrepreneurs argues Andrew Laird.

Rob Wilson has been reappointed Minister for Civil Society following the UK general election last week, but a quickfire response to one of his constituents on Twitter has led to over 5,000 people demanding his resignation. 

Big Society Capital's Matt Robinson calls for the next UK government to conduct a social outcomes based spending review in 2015 to help make taxpayers' money go further and reduce health inequality throughout the country.

With less than a month to go before the UK election, the opening salvo for socially minded voters has been fired. The Labour Party has included support for social ventures in the first pre-election manifesto to be revealed.