The effect of benefit policy changes on the incomes of working-age adults and children since 2010 has been an average loss of £375 per year compared with a boost to pensioners of £510 per year.
Parliament sports childcare facilities that most working parents could only dream of – precisely to let MPs focus on their job.
Parents are becoming more and more reliant on schools – and the state – to play the role of mum and dad.
The Education Secretary will have powers to decide key details later, without parliamentary oversight – such as sharing children’s sensitive personal data.
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
The exorbitant cost of raising a family has deep structural causes, but Johnson doesn’t operate on such terms.
Assessing individual rather than household income ignores real circumstances and penalises families.
The move is also out of step with public opinion, and risks fueling negative social trends.
With half of children not ready to start school in 2021, more must be done to help toddlers’ parents.
If Britain is happy to keep commercial surrogacy illegal here, why is it okay for British citizens to exploit foreign women?
A pleasant fantasy about a policy programme directed at interests other than those of retired asset-holders.
It might smack of ‘social engineering’, but the UK needs to tackle the structural disincentives to starting a family before it’s too late.
When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.
Housing, childcare, and student loans are three areas where the Government could offer a new deal to the next generation.