The levelling up agenda depends upon nation-wide digital inclusivity. If we give up on this, we will be trying to deliver it with one hand held behind our back.
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.
When older heads avoided last month’s Commons debate, the 2019 intake rode out to defend their leader. Many will never so readily do so again.
The fourth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
The second in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
These proposed Lords amendments defend the rights and social protections of British nationals and armour-plate the Withdrawal Agreement.
The recent debate on free school meals has shown, among many things, the impact of local civil society non-state organisations.
We are allowing others to create a narrative for us, and in the absence of an agreed poverty measure and subsequent strategy, we always will.
Ministers could not have handled the matter worse if they’d tried. But Paul Maynard, pictured, is championing a solution.
And when it comes to paying for the crisis measures, as we must, taxes must not fall on younger workers.
The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.
It is about time we had an honest conversation about segmenting the population, with more targeted protection for the elderly and vulnerable.
The present social contract was written when the number of taxpayers well outstripped the number of retirees. But times have changed.