
Dan Watkins: Six reasons why the Conservatives deserved to win that no confidence vote yesterday
It’s not hard to find reasons to be frustrated with the Government, but we are still delivering for the British people.
It’s not hard to find reasons to be frustrated with the Government, but we are still delivering for the British people.
If we continue to scapegoat welfare reform, we will never gain the depth of understanding we need to truly make poverty history.
If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.
Work has been rewarded. Predictions of rent arrears increasing have been proved false. The number of households penalised has fallen from 660,000 to 381,000.
At the moment, we are treading water and appear to be relying on popular support for Brexit, and the threat of Corbyn, to keep us in office.
In sum, Hammond said: vote for May’s Deal – or the economy gets it. But there’s more than one way of dicing the next election result.
But although the era of austerity is coming to a close, we are emphatically not rejecting the need for ongoing discipline with the public finances.
New research from 38 Degrees shows how this flagship policy could become a real political headache for the Conservatives.
The Chancellor’s recent claims of a coming “Deal Dividend” sent the wrong message at the wrong time – and showed up a deep Treasury malaise.
“You cannot marry the idea that you should bin universal credit with a commitment to improving the life chances of our most vulnerable constituents.”
“We are putting transitional protections in…so people who are moved onto Universal Credit will not see any reduction.”
That’s you told, Johnson and Truss. Plus: a Universal Credit Brexit Dividend for working families.
Rees-Mogg is “worried” by reports that working families will lose money. Plus: how should May pitch for Labour voters? And why he is “always on good behaviour.”
The prospect of millions of families losing out financially makes ministers jittery – as, presumably, those briefing the press intend.
The legacy benefits system is a mix of six benefits, has three cliff-edges – and punishes extra hours. It lets people down and holds them back.