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Posts Tagged: Income

WATCH: May and Corbyn clash on the cost of living at PMQs

The Labour leader presses the Government on food banks and social care, and the Prime Minister touts tax cuts and boosts to incomes.

1 May 2019 | 8 comments

James Frayne: Might the UK see its own Yellow Vest uprising?

Let us hope not. It’s unlikely, but not completely impossible. The Government must battle four trends to reduce the risk.

By James Frayne | 11 December 2018 | 166 comments

Lower immigration, the unspoken upward pressure on wages

Various Leavers – and the head of the Remain campaign – predicted such an outcome. Now it seems we’re seeing it happen.

By Mark Wallace | 13 November 2018 | 41 comments

How to measure – and vanquish – poverty? A new answer to an old problem.

Philippa Stroud’s new Social Metrics Commission hopes to bring light to murky statistical waters. But can numbers ever truly neutralise politics?

By Mark Wallace | 18 September 2018 | 87 comments

It might be taken for granted, and even scorned, but the jobs boom continues

What’s more, it might be starting to help lift wages, too.

By Mark Wallace | 12 September 2018 | 29 comments

Rebecca Lowe: Gender pay, childcare, flexibility, robots – and the future of work

To my mind, once some kind of base fairness has been established, then it’s best to leave cultural transformations down to demand.

By Rebecca Lowe | 16 April 2018 | 43 comments

Rebecca Lowe: Keir Hardie’s lessons for Conservatives (and others)

And here we end, by reflecting on what he might have thought about Labour’s move away from the tenet of democratic government.

By Rebecca Lowe | 17 January 2018 | 11 comments

Nick Faith: Four lessons from last June’s election for the Conservatives

They include both the working class vote being up for grabs…and the Party adapting to the changing nature of modern Britain.

By Nick Faith | 26 September 2017 | 47 comments

Alex Morton: Identity politics is wrong – and bad for Tories, too. So if May is staking a revival on it, her difficulties will deepen.

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.

By Alex Morton | 6 September 2017 | 46 comments

Nadhim Zahawi: Why the basic rate of income tax for younger people should be cut

In an era when it is harder for young people to buy a house, or even just to pay rent, it makes sense to direct more help to them than older people who already have one.

By Nadhim Zahawi MP | 4 September 2017 | 84 comments

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why government should focus on reducing poverty – not increasing equality

Arguments for interfering further, or differently, with the pie, therefore, should be based primarily on need rather than on redistribution.

By Rebecca Lowe | 29 March 2017 | 11 comments

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