We need to have a debate about which taxes are least damaging to economic growth. Over the long term, corporation tax ranks as being one of the worst.
Our research with low-income voters in some of these areas revealed that many are not expecting miracles. They simply want better local services.
Could more spending bring the economy back quicker? Wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to ensure public finances are on a sustainable footing?
It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.
Before pumping more funding into the public sector, we must restore the habit of making sure we have the money in the bank before we start spending it.
Plus: Johnson’s sub-optimal Brexit trade deal choice. I’m not dreaming of a normal Christmas. And: green jobs – overall, a cost not a benefit.
The fourth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
Duncan Smith names “five giants”: family breakdown, worklessness, serious personal debt, addiction and educational underachievement.
We need a long-term poverty strategy and a Social Justice Cabinet Committee. And here’s a Christmas holiday plan for childrens’ food.
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.
The first group of savings are about making the state more efficient, the second about creating a state focused on the core tasks of government.
Many still assume that going to college and leaving home are bound up together. But it ain’t necessarily so.
Without action, profitable firms may spend years paying back creditors rather than investing and creating jobs.
Modest consolidation over decades is one thing; large increases over a Parliament would be quite another.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.