The Good Growth Foundation was established to ensure the UK thrives on the world stage.
We want growth that makes people’s lives better. Jobs, Housing and public services no longer create the security and living standards that people need. We are here to provide answers on how to deliver the changes necessary and how to talk about the economy in a way that makes sense to the public.
Our approach focuses on what matters most to people. Through polling, focus groups and policy analysis we drive the conversation on how to deliver popular solutions to the UK’s decade of lost growth.
Our most recent report
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Reopening Ashford International to bring good growth to left behind towns
August 2025
Our latest report looks at Ashford International - once a proud gateway to Europe, now a symbol of decline. Since international services were suspended in 2020, millions in taxpayer investment have sat idle while communities across Kent and Sussex feel cut off and forgotten. But reopening Ashford is about far more than trains. It’s a test of whether the Government is serious about backing coastal towns, restoring growth in the South East, and tackling the rise of populism in a region where Reform UK is a growing threat.
Read the report to understand what’s at stake - and how action on Ashford could signal a commitment to both local prosperity and national renewal.
Campaigning for a Windfall Tax on Private Healthcare
The Good Growth Foundation is campaigning alongside Lord Kinnock for a windfall tax on private healthcare to fund the NHS. Our research shows that 55% of the public support such a proposal - with only 17% opposed. We are sleepwalking into a two-tier health system, and we have to back the NHS.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in Health & Protection.
Listen to Praful on Times Radio setting out how the UK has sleepwalked into a two-tier healthcare system - and how we can raise the funds to fix the NHS.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for VAT on private healthcare to fund the NHS, in the Daily Mail.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in The Telegraph.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign, supported by Lord Kinnock, for VAT on private healthcare to fund the NHS, in The Mirror.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in The i.
Good Growth Foundation in the news
See Praful and the Good Growth Foundation in the news here, or visit our website www.goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk.
Watch Praful on KMTV discussing the Good Growth Foundation’s new report on reopening Ashford International and what it will mean for the South East.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation’s report on reopening Ashford International on Kent Live.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign to reopen Ashford International in The I. It follows the GGF’s recent report which revealed this could deliver up to £2.7bn for the local economy over the next five years.
Watch Praful discuss on BBC South East Today the Good Growth Foundation’s latest report, ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’, on reopening Ashford International to bring good growth to left behind towns.
Watch Praful on ITV Meridian discussing the Good Growth Foundation’s new report on reopening Ashford International.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation’s report on reopening Ashford International on the BBC website.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation’s report on reopening Ashford International on Kent Online.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in Health & Protection.
Listen to Praful on Times Radio setting out how the UK has sleepwalked into a two-tier healthcare system - and how we can raise the funds to fix the NHS.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for VAT on private healthcare to fund the NHS, in the Daily Mail.
Read about how Labour MPs are calling on Rachel Reeves to adopt GGF’s Rapid Reforms to unlock housebuilding to avoid painful tax rises or spending cuts in The Times.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in The Telegraph.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign, supported by Lord Kinnock, for VAT on private healthcare to fund the NHS, in The Mirror.
Read about the Good Growth Foundation campaign for a windfall tax on private healthcare, backed by Lord Kinnock, in The i.
Read Praful’s op-ed in Public Finance’s growth issue.
Watch GGF Director Praful Nargund discuss the top news stories of the day on LBC’s Cross Question.
If people feel the positive effects of our new EU relationship, then accusations of "Brexit betrayal" will have no purchase whatsoever.
Read Praful in PoliticsHome.
Watch Praful discuss on BBC Newsnight the Good Growth Foundation’s latest report, ‘The Third Rail of British Politics’, about the UK-EU relationship.
Watch Praful on Newsnight discussing the Good Growth Foundation’s upcoming report on the UK-EU relationship.
Read about Good Growth Foundation advocacy for a National Insurance Holiday for employers that hire those on long-term sickness/disability benefits in Bloomberg.
See Praful discuss the Chancellor’s Spring Statement with Liz Bates on Sky News.
See Good Growth Foundation research in The Sunday Times View
Watch Praful talk about the Good Growth Foundation’s first report, Mind the Growth Gap, on The Rest is Money podcast.