The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.
Four proposals to help engender a sustainable balance between the rights of landlords and renters.
He’s asked whether or not, given the reliance of so many people on the payment, it’s right to mull scrapping it.
We have a dominating centre and compliant Ministers. The Education Secretary was given his marching orders, and told to like them or lump them.
No fuel duty rises, self-employed taxes, income tax rises, more taxes on food and drink – and the like.
“Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Saves lives” now needs to end up as “Get back to work. Protect the economy. Save livelihoods.”
The Government should temporarily suspend or increase the benefit cap – so that all families on UC benefit from the emergency measures.
As a member of his first Cabinet, I was tested in Northern Ireland – as elsewhere the new government reduced the defict and reformed public services.
The CSJ’s proposals would bring practices in line with the private sector – and establish a new contract of fairness.
Absent a clearly articulated strategy business uncertainty will heighten, and severe non-compliance is risked
Despite help being set out for companies during the pandemic, there have been issues with the implementation of schemes. Ministers must keep an eye on this.
The job now needs to be completed by shoring up workers’ incomes and firms’ revenues to as close to 100 per cent as is practical.
It will take a vast New Deal of actual spending to lift Europe out of Coronavirus slump and head off a deflationary depression.
Number 10 should spot the political problem on the horizon and avoid it by having a clear plan.