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Hello and welcome to the newsletter formerly known as Home Front . This is now The State We’re In and, every week, I’ll be bringing you exclusive data, analysis and expert voices to help unpack all of the ways in which Britain is in a right old mess. But, if that sounds a bit miserable, fear not, I’ll also be bringing you solutions.

Is there a topic you’d like me to cover? I’d love to hear from you. Do email me: vicky.spratt@theipaper.com

So, what’s coming up in today’s newsletter:

Britain’s birth rate hits a new low

Polling suggests the real reason why young people are having fewer childre

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