“And here I’m sitting with a 19 year old girl who’d no aspiration and no self-worth. My point was: what could we do to change her life?”
The notion of long years of post-career idleness is an artefact of a clumsy system. We are living and active for longer, and provision for our dotage must adapt.
I believe that a change in our relationship with Europe could provide a fantastic opportunity to achieve this greater Britain we all want to see.
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.
People being hurt by a changing economy don’t deserve attacks on their collective organisations or the implication that low paid strikers are hostile to our values.
There must be special measures and exemptions for the self-employed so not to harm the ‘self-employment miracle’.
Total trade will not rise if shops are open longer: it will merely be spread to different parts of the week, and so will not add to GDP.
Osborne’s localist scheme has its attractions, but Tory backbenchers are angry, the Government risks losing the vote – and there is no mandate for it.
It is the Conservative Party which produced the first ever female MP, the first lesbian leader in Ruth Davidson and the first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher.
“We know that nearly 70 per cent of people on it genuinely want to work.”
If you’re a factory worker who hasn’t a proper pay rise in years, the fact that the tax lawyers and brand consultants are doing nicely isn’t much comfort.
Thanks to a captive market and the need for new investment, the cost of commuting has increased – a burden that must be met out of taxed and static incomes.
Small state interventionism is opposed by the big state left, but also from those on the right who can’t see beyond the word ‘intervention’.
If automation destroys jobs, then countries with the most robots should lose the most jobs.
The Prime Minister’s speech yesterday was a reminder that while Labour are obsessed by transfering income our focus instead is on improving lives.