The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.
We are allowing others to create a narrative for us, and in the absence of an agreed poverty measure and subsequent strategy, we always will.
Ministers could not have handled the matter worse if they’d tried. But Paul Maynard, pictured, is championing a solution.
And when it comes to paying for the crisis measures, as we must, taxes must not fall on younger workers.
The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.
It is about time we had an honest conversation about segmenting the population, with more targeted protection for the elderly and vulnerable.
Four proposals to help engender a sustainable balance between the rights of landlords and renters.
He’s asked whether or not, given the reliance of so many people on the payment, it’s right to mull scrapping it.
No fuel duty rises, self-employed taxes, income tax rises, more taxes on food and drink – and the like.
“Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Saves lives” now needs to end up as “Get back to work. Protect the economy. Save livelihoods.”
The Government should temporarily suspend or increase the benefit cap – so that all families on UC benefit from the emergency measures.
One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.
The second in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.