Better pre-school education, more help in need for those who have contributed more, a higher minimum wage, support for grandparents – all fit Conservative ideals.
I believe we’ll win. But I could be wrong. So all this could be only a few weeks away…
The most straight forward way to achieve a Living Income for everyone would be to align the Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds with the Minimum Wage.
A living wage is a well-meaning idea, but it’s also deeply problematic. Far better to sort out the tax and benefits system first.
The Mayor of London hasn’t really been dragged into the ongoing leadership struggle. Instead, he’s been emphasising his One Nation credentials.
The Labour leader wants to spend his way to better employment figures – but can he?
Tax credits are meant to help the low paid but they also transfer resources from good to bad employers
Mistaken alarmism hurt our brand in the 1990s – might enthusiasm to put that right lead us to another mistake now?
There’s a case for tax incentives for firms to encourage them to pay the Living Wage. But that’s no substitute for focusing tax reductions on the worse-off.
“They’re a good deal for workers, a good deal for employers and a good deal for the taxpayer.”
We didn’t say what the Chief Secretary says we said about raising thresholds. Instead, Jill Kirby was making the point that the idea was originally a Tory one
It can be achieved by doing what Conservatives do best – ensuring a fair minimum wage, lower tax for lower earners, and simplifying the tax system.
First there was the minimum wage, now there’s a growing campaign for the ‘living wage’ – which is defined by the Living Wage Campaign as follows: “The Living Wage is a number. An hourly rate, set independently, every year (by the GLA in London). It is calculated according to cost of living and gives the […]
We cannot afford to cede it to Labour politicians who have no answer to the problem of low pay but more spending, more borrowing and more debt for future generations.