When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.
The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
It won’t be sufficient to cover the costs just for the lowest income voters – most voters will need environmentally sustainable options to be heavily subsided.
Success is most common where donors have focused in terms of the countries with whom they work on a long-term basis.
He attacked the SNP for wanting the poor, hard-pressed taxpayer “to pay for more and more and more”.
My colleagues and I were elected on a promise to uphold our aid commitment. Breaking my word is a very big deal.
The Prime Minster could do worse than dust down the Social Justice Outcomes Framework published by the Coalition Government.
Labour would abolish Universal Credit, which has coped well with the unprecedented pressures of this unprecedented last year.
Until Ministers have a clear direction in which to steer the ship of anti-poverty policy, they will be at the mercy of the passengers.
The lesson of the last year is poorer communities are much more vulnerable to the next virus or health emergency.
The levelling up agenda depends upon nation-wide digital inclusivity. If we give up on this, we will be trying to deliver it with one hand held behind our back.
There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.
Reducing their length will help close this attainment gap, while reducing the burden on working families.
But heat pumps work best in energy efficient homes. Here lies another opportunity for everyone to insulate them.