The current method that we use to assess employment support is fundamentally flawed, and should be overhauled.
The MP for Enfield Southgate helped to sink tax credit and Sunday Trading changes – and now has eye on the Government’s housing benefit plans for young people.
The harsh truth is that, nearly seven years into Conservative-led Government, we are still living beyond our means.
The majority of those who leave prison will be convicted of new crimes within a year – that is a shameful failure.
The report I have been working on over the past year will provide the Government with a clear strategy to help tackle rough sleeping.
Popular anger won’t fade whilst the system excessively rewards the very few.
Too many people have seen little wage growth in over two decades, and remain in insecure jobs with no prospect of in-work progression.
We need sectoral centres of excellence that strengthen our economy, create higher wage jobs and help us trade across the globe.
It should be used to pay for what we owe in our pensions and benefits system – and thus provide more inter-generational justice.
It would be wrong to assume you can simply sweep reducing poverty into a wider social mobility plan: they are not the same.
“This Government has a plan, not simply to manage our withdrawal from the European Union, but to take this opportunity to fundamentally change Britain for the better.”
To reach deprived families you need to drag them to the front of the queue.
A fundamental clash between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism is taking place – and it cuts across Left and Right.
The Government is not only for the JAMs (Just About Managing), but now also apparently for the NAAMs (Not At All Managing).