It is quite right for us to preach the virtues of personal responsibility, but only if we foster the conditions within which virtue is nurtured.
Having built the benefits trap, they have fought every reform required to dismantle it.
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.”
But tells Andrew Marr that no decisions have yet been taken about where they will fall.
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.
Welfare, skills and immigration policy require deep thought and serious long-term reform rather than angry slogans.
Also: Swinney accused of coercing councils; Plaid want all young children taught in Welsh; Holyrood rejects national anthem.
The new system is set to be rolled out nationally.
Also: UUP accuse Sinn Fein of ‘rolling over’ on universal credit; SNP revive Labour ID database; and Stormont minister proposes Irish-language courts.
Want to cure social ills and save taxpayers’ money at the same time? He’s got a suggestion.
As Milton Friedman once quipped, we could increase employment by making those working on government construction projects use spoons instead of shovels.
Does His Grace think the welfare reforms may have contributed to the fall in unemployment?
I’ve seen first hand the contribution that this generation of young Poles is making to Britain – just as an earlier one did during the Battle of Britain.
The only vision of the fair society that strengthens, rather than saps, our economic competitiveness is the meritocratic kind that boosts social mobility.