Nick King: Let’s have a tax opt-out to help boost small businesses
Instead of paying four bigger taxes, they could choose to pay a new Simple Consolidated Tax (or SCT): a simple levy on their turnover.
John O’Connell: There are so many better ways of spending £50 billion than on HS2. Here are some of them.
The alternatives we publish today range from airfields to supertrams, roads to rail, bicycles to bridges.
Alice Wilcock: Prisons are a national scandal, and need a national response
Rory Stewart’s pledge to bring security and conditions under control is welcome, but too narrow in scope.
Alex Morton: We urgently need to fix the social care crisis
Any reform must be sustainable both financially and politically. Our new report sets out how the Government could do it.
Andrew Allum: New technology can save the NHS and social care system billions and improve patients’ lives
Hancock’s willingness to embrace such innovation is encouraging, and will bring sizeable benefits.
Anvar Sarygulov: Here’s how the Government can improve Universal Credit
A ‘helping hand’ payment for new claimants, more disability advisers, and an obligation for the state to pay out on time would all help.
Will Tanner: Nansledan offers an answer to Britain’s housing crisis
By engaging properly with the local community, the developer has won local consent for four times as many homes as originally proposed.
David Burrowes: It’s time to make work really pay for low-income families
Cripplingly high effective marginal tax rates, and other imbalances, are skewing the tax system against the things we care about.
Laura Farris and Guy Opperman: How to tackle the UK’s productivity challenge
Employee ownership, flexible working, and offering ‘mid-life MOTs’ are all simple, scalable, cost-effective policies ministers can support.
Rachel Maclean: We must address the role of life-long learning in the future of work
The oft-maligned ‘gig economy’ is delivering flexibility, innovation, choice, and value to millions. But for it to keep doing so, we must adapt.
Richard Ekins, Stephen Laws and Guglielmo Verdirame: How the UK can escape the backstop
It would be open to the Commons to approve the Agreement subject to the right of the UK to denounce the Protocol unilaterally under the following conditions.
Stephen Purvis: Squeezing investors to fund the NHS would backfire on the Treasury
Targeted tax breaks on investment create jobs and pay dividends for the public purse. The long-term interests of our public services are not served by cutting them.
Will Heaven and Jack Airey: Popular architecture is the answer to NIMBYism
By giving local communities more control, and broadening the scope of government priorities to include quality and design, we can get Britain building.
Matt Kilcoyne: How a flexible Right to Buy will breathe new life into an old policy – and a transformational one, too
Council tenants would be able to transfer the value of their Right to Buy discount and use it towards buying a different, cheaper property which they could afford.
Lesley Rankin: Conservatives cannot afford to ignore the call, by Welby and others, for fundamental economic reform
It is little wonder that young people are turning away from the Right when they find it so difficult to make their way in the world.