Savings can be found – but let’s do so thoughtfully and compassionately, not simply as a display of machismo.
The current entrepreneurial spirit and endeavour are the strongest I have experienced in my career.
Dividing lines were one of Brown’s weapons. The Chancellor is turning them against Labour with a vengeance.
“We have been absolutely clear: child benefit is staying. We’re keeping it, not cutting it. We made a difficult change in the last Parliament.”
Having built the benefits trap, they have fought every reform required to dismantle it.
Answers within this post. Unsurprisingly, old people receive the most.
There has still been no apology from Yvette Cooper for blocking access to them.
Plus: Tories – too vague. UKIP – too specific. LibDems: what are they for? Why the polls could all be wrong. And: I win an award, and am baffled.
“The Coalition Government did some good work but majority government is more accountable. What I put in my manifesto is the programme… nothing gets haggled away in back room deals.”
Growing national debt is a burden that young people and future generations shouldn’t be asked to bear. Governments have a moral responsibility to remove it.
The number of poor elderly people has declined sharply over recent years and decades. The same can’t be said for those of working age.
The further you go down the income spectrum, the greater the decline in marriage and paternal involvement.
Relative, absolute, before housing costs, after housing costs… the only way out of this madness is to embrace the complexity.
The Mayor of London joins the Good Right today – but does his cause stretch beyond those returning to work?
The only vision of the fair society that strengthens, rather than saps, our economic competitiveness is the meritocratic kind that boosts social mobility.