It sets out a programme for more homes, better jobs and higher savings – accompanied by plans for economic and political reform.
Home ownership first. New garden cities. Scrap HS2. Repatriate immigration control. Reform pensions tax relief. Higher NIC thesholds. English home rule. Internet voting.
British resistance to the politics of envy isn’t translating into a majority-winning Conservative vote.
We need to be able to see what is happening to the great mass of ordinary working people, i.e. people who are rarely out-of-work, doing mainstream jobs for middling levels of pay
“It’s not my money, it’s your money, this is the money of people who have worked hard and saved hard.”
Has Labour contracted out the development of its manifesto to an independent think tank? The short answer is ‘no’, but the long answer is much more interesting.
Working longer is good for individuals and society – but some need more support.
By 2025, GY and younger will be a competitive proportion of the electorate. We must appeal to them.
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Government’s legislative agenda.
Our high level of self-employment is sometimes blamed for Britain’s comparatively low-level of labour productivity, but this ignores the hidden efficiencies
New Towns? Building on the Green Belt? Different lending rules? The proposed solutions are as complex as the problem.
The alternative to building lots of homes in many places is build lots of homes in a few places: this would certainly lessen, or at least limit, the political penalty involved.
The Daily Politics explores supply, demand and house prices to ask: should we be worried?
Housing association profits from social tenants have increased tenfold in five years – is that right or fair?