We will be told that Conservatives want other groups to bear the brunt of cuts in public spending whilst protecting Tory voters. It is hard both to be an advocate of a small state and of the Triple Lock.
The system is all but designed to subsidise low wages, disincentivise productivity, and give retirees no stake in the UK maintaining a thriving, dynamic economy.
The latest report from Centre for Cities highlights how an impressive record on employment has been undermined by poor productivity, stagnant wages, and the rising cost of housing.
Moreover, how to do so without confronting any hard trade-offs or admitting any fundamental shortcomings with the UK’s economic model after 13 years of the party being in government.
The Cost of Living Share Plan is a practical solution to help people in work as the value of the pound in their pocket falls.
The Labour leader presses the Government on food banks and social care, and the Prime Minister touts tax cuts and boosts to incomes.
Let us hope not. It’s unlikely, but not completely impossible. The Government must battle four trends to reduce the risk.
Various Leavers – and the head of the Remain campaign – predicted such an outcome. Now it seems we’re seeing it happen.
Philippa Stroud’s new Social Metrics Commission hopes to bring light to murky statistical waters. But can numbers ever truly neutralise politics?
What’s more, it might be starting to help lift wages, too.
To my mind, once some kind of base fairness has been established, then it’s best to leave cultural transformations down to demand.
And here we end, by reflecting on what he might have thought about Labour’s move away from the tenet of democratic government.
They include both the working class vote being up for grabs…and the Party adapting to the changing nature of modern Britain.
The idea that all groups should have the same outcomes is just an update of the old socialist idea of equality of outcome – ignoring the choices that individuals make.
Any sincere reading of the British economy since 2010 need acknowledge one basic thing: that the essential problem with the modern economy isn’t income inequality, but a lack of income.