
John Redwood: Let’s have a Conservative Queen’s speech
The Government needs to trust the people more and resort to rule-making less. This Queen’s speech should set that tone.
The Government needs to trust the people more and resort to rule-making less. This Queen’s speech should set that tone.
Targeted support aimed at making work pay or supporting families with children would be a wiser use of the money.
As the jobs market expands, the taper could be lowered. This would leave low hours workers with more money, helping accelerate them into full-time work.
There will always be a case for just giving people money, but ministers should consider a much wider spread of better-targeted interventions instead.
The fourth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
The recent debate on free school meals has shown, among many things, the impact of local civil society non-state organisations.
“Getting through this will require a collective national effort with a role for everyone to pay: people, businesses, government. It’s on all of us.”
Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.
Our analysis shows that any political party will struggle to win a working majority if they fail to connect with the poorest voters across Britain.
My local secondary schools were no-go areas and no one from my primary school went to one. That won’t be my children’s experience, and he can take a lot of credit.
The former Work and Pensions Secretary gives his view in the final article in a three-part mini-series on reform to the adult social care system.
The former Minister for Disabled People contributes the first article in a three-part mini-series on reform to the adult social care system.
This strategic approach has brought sizeable benefits in the field of security, and could work for welfare, too.
Working-aged benefits have been deeply and disproportionately cut. But if the welfare system is to be suitably resourced in the future, the public need to believe it is fair.
A ‘helping hand’ payment for new claimants, more disability advisers, and an obligation for the state to pay out on time would all help.