Piecemeal changes have been tried and were found wanting.
The housing shortage is pushing benefit bills up in the prosperous South East. Here’s how to get them down.
The Prime Minister’s speech yesterday was a reminder that while Labour are obsessed by transfering income our focus instead is on improving lives.
The Government’s ambition to halve the disability employment gap is a weighty one. But it can be done.
“…a set of trivial demands, something that isn’t going to fundamentally change the relationship between Britain and the EU.”
New Reform analysis of sickness benefits over the past five years found a persistently high caseload that is increasingly young and mental health-related.
The policy is likely to be the most important legacy of a Conservative welfare agenda. We must stay the course.
The Autumn Statement and Spending Review were far too interventionist.
It resolved a four-year dispute over welfare reform – and paves the way for completion of the devolution of corporation tax powers.
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.
Tax rises are not the only other way to find £4.4 billion. Here are two spending cuts that Osborne could do instead.
Friedman and Hayek’s beloved policy would help the poor, make work pay and fulfil the surplus target.
The savings still need to be made. The Government still struggles to judge Parliament’s mood. And why aren’t Bishops this angry about other injustices?
Those opposing the step must specify their alternative proposals – £4.4 billion of extra taxes or debt would be unacceptable.
The Chair of Conservatives for Reform in Europe replies to Paul Goodman’s article of last week arguing the opposite.