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Posts Tagged: Welfare Reform

Matthew Oakley: Earnings can solve Osborne’s Spending Review and tax credits conundrum

By helping in-work tax credits claimants work just an hour a day more…the savings to the Exchequer would come to a staggering £4.1 billion.

By Matthew Oakley | 19 November 2015 | 17 comments

Reforming child benefit – and other alternatives to the tax credit cuts

Tax rises are not the only other way to find £4.4 billion. Here are two spending cuts that Osborne could do instead.

By Mark Wallace | 6 November 2015 | 78 comments

Ben Southwood: Replacing welfare with a negative income tax would solve Osborne’s problems

Friedman and Hayek’s beloved policy would help the poor, make work pay and fulfil the surplus target.

By Ben Southwood | 29 October 2015 | 12 comments

The Government is defeated in the Lords on tax credits. What next for Osborne, welfare reform and the constitution?

The savings still need to be made. The Government still struggles to judge Parliament’s mood. And why aren’t Bishops this angry about other injustices?

By Mark Wallace | 27 October 2015 | 188 comments

Paul Abbott: Hold your nerve and back the tax credit changes

Those opposing the step must specify their alternative proposals – £4.4 billion of extra taxes or debt would be unacceptable.

By Paul Abbott | 26 October 2015 | 125 comments

Nic Conner: These tax credit cuts will be devastating for Britain’s economy

There must be special measures and exemptions for the self-employed so not to harm the ‘self-employment miracle’.

By Nic Conner | 21 October 2015 | 34 comments

In seeking to control spending, Osborne is Thatcher’s heir. He deserves support over tax credits.

Yes, changes could be made to his plans – and probably will be. But the Chancellor is on the right side of a big, vital argument.

By Paul Goodman | 20 October 2015 | 61 comments

George Grant: Meeting Manchester’s Class Warriors

A former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate goes to find out what the anti-Tory protesters at the party’s annual conference really have to say for themselves.

By George Grant | 7 October 2015 | 25 comments

Henry Hill: SNP brace for by-election in Edinburgh

Also: Nationalists under fire over second MP; Cameron increases pressure for Ulster deal; Crabb claims slim chance of reaching Welsh devolution agreement; and more.

By Henry Hill | 7 October 2015 | 6 comments

Louise Burfitt-Dons: Why kindness and politics don’t mix

We don’t need the Government to make us compassionate in private life – and public policy challenges seldom have straightforwardly kind solutions.

By Louise Burfitt-Dons | 3 October 2015 | 10 comments

Why Northern Ireland’s government could collapse

The province’s institutions are in critical condition because sharing power has totally failed to forge a sense of common purpose between unionists and nationalists.

By Henry Hill | 31 August 2015 | 9 comments

The number affected by the spare room subsidy cut falls again

By rewarding work more than 200,000 people have come off Housing Benefits altogether.

By Harry Phibbs | 28 August 2015 | 18 comments

If the momentum of the last hundred days is maintained what will Britain be like in five years?

Often the reforms are going further than anything that Margaret Thatcher achieved.

By Harry Phibbs | 15 August 2015 | 137 comments

A welfare system that buys drink for alcoholics, drugs for addicts and sweets for the obese is cruel, not compassionate

It is obscene that people have been left in limbo and handed cash rather than given help for their problems.

By Mark Wallace | 29 July 2015 | 58 comments

Henry Hill: Welsh Labour MPs join left-wing rebellion

Also: New welfare reforms could collapse Northern Irish government; Salmond accused of ignoring the Scottish Parliament; and SNP fears infiltration by the far left.

By Henry Hill | 22 July 2015 | 2 comments

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