We’re not only better than others at making choices about how to spend our own lives and money – it’s also extremely important for us to be able to do so.
Plus: Shame on the Conservative whips. And away with Julian Assange: most of us would happily pay his airfare.
The second piece in our series on reducing taxes also argues that in the longer term we should seek to return to a two-rate Income Tax system.
People will not accept any arrangement that isn’t funded through the tax system and free at the point of use. So we have to find a way of making the current model work.
Cutting the cost of living. Building more houses. Protecting the NHS. Developing skills. A draft of the proposals Hammond should deliver.
The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.
Employment, taxation, and three environment are three areas where we can show the Tory agenda is bigger than Brexit.
A lot on Brexit; not much elsewhere. The lack of a majority leaves the Prime Minister exposed – whatever may happen with the DUP.
Two in three are opposed. The finding is part of nearly five thousand replies, our biggest-ever reader response.
This first piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that the Conservatives must get serious about living within our means.
Government encouraged drivers to switch to it. Now some want to penalise them for doing so.
By scrambling to protect traditional revenues from a changing economy, the Treasury is sending entirely the wrong economic signals.
At the same time as putting in more money, there must be a credible plan to spend it effectively – including improvements to how care is delivered.