Duncan Smith names “five giants”: family breakdown, worklessness, serious personal debt, addiction and educational underachievement.
In the Thames Valley, those under 18 caught with drugs are given an education programme, with sanctions if they refuse to attend.
The Chancellor is groping his way, knowing well that the future is unknowable, trying to hold on to as much of the past as he can.
A bed is not enough. A chance of employment, as well as good physical and mental health are needed to turn lives around.
Plus: vision from the top for left-behind pupils, a National Education Broadcasting Service, and Alan Turing summer schools.
We’ve seen gunshot wounds and babies born as a result of rape. With UK Border Force in Dover, we found a girl heading for a lifetime of sexual slavery.
Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.
When the brief is, for example, a speech to commemorate Armistice Day or World AIDS Day, the challenge is even more intense.
Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.
Legalise the mainstream ones, such as cannabis. Decriminalise the more harmful, but lesser used, ones such as heroin.
We are left with a scattergun of projects, selected on old information, the best sales pitch, and political favouritism.
The schism between between Tory Eurosceptics and Europhiles has been overcome; now another divide must be healed.
We need a long-term poverty strategy and a Social Justice Cabinet Committee. And here’s a Christmas holiday plan for childrens’ food.