We must tackle causes of poverty, not symptoms: educational failure, worklessness, family breakdown, debt, addiction, disability, exposure to crime, poor housing.
Despite polarisation on Brexit, there is more agreement among voters than often appears – and therefore more cause for optimism.
Governments are more likely to help create conditions for it by seeking economic growth, rather than well-being.
Lessons from my recent visit to India with Andy Street and Sir John Peace, Chair of the Midlands Engine Partnership.
The Government needs to consider three strands if it is to offer a comprehensive solution: state support, private assets, and individual planning.
The MoD should use the opportunity of Brexit to reflect on whether EU competition rules should continue to apply to procurement.
Some counter-intuitive, or at least counter-conventional, findings from a recent IFS report.
A report published by the Centre for Social Justice today outlines four major traps that could jeopardise Britain’s employment miracle.
There is a suspicion that the Government wants to talk about other things – and a significant amount of attention is of course already being consumed by Brexit.
The challenge for aid donors and recipients alike is to work together to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
We should seek the closest possible relationship with the EU and an open trade policy. Firms need confidence to invest.
The really interesting question is: what causes wealth? And the answer is clear enough – specialisation and exchange.
Individually, migrants can come to embody these values better than many on the Left who were born here. But the evidence suggests that this takes time.
Put harshly, it can be the ideology of the free-rider, the citizen who neglects the demands of citizenship.
First, that Leave had won dishonestly. Second, that the country had become more racist. Third, that the 52 per cent had wrecked the economy.