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Posts Tagged: Standard of Living

Richard Holden: Access to cash. Here in County Durham, it matters to voters. Sunak should help to guarantee it.

For many in my community – particularly those on tight budgets, pensioners, and people trying to manage their way out of debt – cash is what they live by.

By Richard Holden MP | 28 September 2020 | 24 comments

Liam Fox: The virus – what it is, what it means, and the two options open to Ministers for phasing out the shutdown

Whatever model is adopted or whatever alternative proposal is deemed better, the public need to know that there is an exit strategy in place.

By Dr Liam Fox MP | 6 April 2020 | 92 comments

Neil O’Brien: So you want to level up. In what way? And how will you do it?

Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.

By Neil O Brien MP | 27 January 2020 | 5 comments

Neil O’Brien: Policies for a new Britain – in which the central point for new Tory MPs is the moors on the edge of Sheffield

Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?

By Neil O Brien MP | 16 December 2019 | 22 comments

Tom Clougherty: Unless Labour resorts to printing money, higher income tax, NI or VAT are coming – for the many, not the few

That’s a legitimate political agenda, and people are quite welcome to vote for it. But they deserve to know what’s coming.

By Tom Clougherty | 11 December 2019 | 13 comments

Ryan Bourne: Thatcher and Cameron made us happier

It really is remarkable. Every self-reported measure of wellbeing has improved near continuously in the past eight years.

By Ryan Bourne | 30 October 2019 | 32 comments

Robert Halfon: Stop calling Corbyn a Marxist

Instead, the Party must demonstrate how the Labour leader as Prime Minister would raise living costs and damage public service.

By Robert Halfon MP | 24 April 2019 | 101 comments

Philip Booth: It’s time to remember that there’s more to politics than Brexit

It is essential that voters do not come to believe that those politicians who support a free economy have become obsessed by leaving the EU.

By Philip Booth | 2 January 2019 | 142 comments

John Penrose: Rebooting Capitalism 2) How to help give younger people a fair deal

In the second of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP sets out plans on tax, housing deficits and debt to help achieve inter-generational justice.

By John Penrose MP | 17 October 2018 | 20 comments

James Frayne: The route to a Conservative election victory lies through Middlesbrough, not Canterbury

That doesn’t mean the Party needs to move right; on the contrary, it means accommodating on issues such as the NHS.

By James Frayne | 16 October 2018 | 35 comments

Chloe Westley: The pernicious, corrosive poison of gossip in politics – and how it blights women especially

We’re judged not only on what we do and say, but often also on our relationships (or lack thereof!), our hair, our weight, the clothes we wear, and so on.

By Chloe Westley | 17 September 2018 | 48 comments

Nick Hargrave: Yes, I compiled an attack dossier on Johnson. But at best, there’s a real purpose to opposition research.

It works best when painting a substantive contrast on issues that voters care about. And here are four strategic choices for the Conservatives.

By Nick Hargrave | 15 September 2018 | 105 comments

“Living standards rose more quickly in the five years from 2011 than in the five years from 2002”. Discuss.

Some counter-intuitive, or at least counter-conventional, findings from a recent IFS report.

By Paul Goodman | 25 June 2018 | 5 comments

Nicky Morgan: As Onward launches today, Number Ten needs to give us all something to hope for

The Government should consider setting up a domestic policy Cabinet sub-committee to help alleviate the Brexit bandwidth problem.

By Nicky Morgan MP | 21 May 2018 | 148 comments

James Frayne: Capping energy prices is less of a vote-winner than you might assume

What’s more, to have any effect it would need to be part of a broader suite of interventionist policies – territory where Conservatives’ can never out-socialist Labour.

By James Frayne | 27 February 2018 | 57 comments

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