The gap between rich and poor is set to rise even further by 2030 - but there is nothing inevitable about this polarisation.
By Andrew Harrop
December 2015
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Next year ministers will seek views on devolving the main disability benefit for pensioners to English councils. This is a big deal for the architecture of the welfare state, even though the news came in a low-key half paragraph, published...
From the Guardian, the FT, the Spectator and the Sun it is the same refrain: the tax credit cuts are a choice not a necessity. Even George Osborne’s own backbenchers now agree that he did not need to target the...
In June the Fabian Society published analysis of the implications of EVEL for the Labour Party, in our report The Mountain To Climb. In the paper I wrote:
Labour is now so weak in Scotland, that ‘English Votes for English Laws’...
Amid all the dozens of election post-mortems, one simple truth is hiding in plain sight. The reason that Ed Miliband is not prime minister today, is because Labour was rejected by older people. And until the Labour party wins back...
Looking at the Corbyn insurgency through the prism of policy risks misunderstanding its essence. Corbynmania, at its heart, reflects a yearning for a different way of doing politics – a departure in tone, mindset and organisation from the orthodoxies of...