The measures would signal that we are a national community, membership of which brings particular rights and also obligations. It sounds pretty Conservative to me.
There is a limit to what can fairly and sensibly be achieved by raising other taxes and cutting public spending – especially when it comes to pay.
The effect of benefit policy changes on the incomes of working-age adults and children since 2010 has been an average loss of £375 per year compared with a boost to pensioners of £510 per year.
Just 7,500 new retirement housing units are delivered annually, versus Knight Frank’s estimate of a demand for 30,000.
A key economic problem during the 1980s was union power. Now it is weak incentives to move and retrain.
When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.
It is right that younger generations pay the soaring costs of unfunded commitments to older citizens, that is how it has always been.
Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.
Building more houses is a necessary but not sufficient means of ensuring rising home ownership for younger people.
“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Here is my five point plan.
There is nothing for productivity growth, ageing, minimum wage hikes, tailoring care to individual needs, or councils’ incentives to build more homes.
Doing so won’t get us to the promised land of herd immunity, and may well compromise their immuno-response systems.
The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
But unless the Party offers them a genuine shot at prosperity, it risks sliding into decline.