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The great social housing sale: Nice idea, shame about the magpies
Yesterday’s Policy Exchange report proposing that valuable social housing be sold off to pay for more housing in cheaper areas caused a predictable furore. Opponents quickly united around the claim...
| Published: | 21 August 2012 |
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Osborne will need to bend his fiscal rules
George Osborne is under pressure from all sides. A poll on Tuesday indicated that half of all voters want the chancellor shuffled out of Number 11. A slew of post-Budget...
| Published: | 29 August 2012 |
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What’s the difference between a banker and a GP?
This week the Financial Services Authority issued a “wake-up call” to the financial services market to re-think the way staff are rewarded. Consumer trust in financial services providers is in...
| Published: | 07 September 2012 |
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Keeping it simple: getting the Universal Credit back on track
Universal Credit, a giant effort to weave together all the fraying strands of welfare policy, is now unravelling fast. It all seemed so simple and intuitive when the idea was...
| Published: | 17 September 2012 |
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Beware: Welfare reform carries great risks
A “seamless system” designed to “ensure work pays”, “minimising complexity for claimants”. Sound familiar? They could be buzz-words from Iain Duncan Smith’s latest Universal Credit announcement. But in fact these...
| Published: | 03 October 2012 |
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Can Labour fix the deficit?
Senior Labour figures such as Lord Wood have made much in recent weeks of the similarities between Labour’s view of progressive capitalism and the achievements of the former US President...
| Published: | 27 January 2014 |
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A shaft of light amidst the murk of pessimism
The speech this morning from Rachel Reeves, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, advocated a policy ‘making sure all those who can and should be working, are working’. The idea...
| Published: | 20 January 2014 |
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Universal Credit: Get ready for some rough justice
With a year to go, there’s a lot at stake for the government’s radical universal credit plan. The new scheme will sweep away the main existing benefits, replacing them with...
| Published: | 31 October 2012 |
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Housing: a politically canny Budget
House prices are on the rise again, but incomes are yet to take off. On average, houses bought by first time buyers are over four times average earnings; in London,...
| Published: | 20 March 2014 |
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