The pandemic showed that the current safety net has big gaps in it. Here’s how to fill them without further draining the public purse.
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
The first group of savings are about making the state more efficient, the second about creating a state focused on the core tasks of government.
Our new Pensions Bill will cracking down on bad pension bosses, utilising new technology to put the consumer in charge, and help us get to Net Zero.
Simply scrapping higher rate tax relief would be an act of fiscal hooliganism, but the Chancellor has other options available to him.
From access to affordable credit, bespoke budgeting tools, savings and insurance products, a new wave of offerings could transform financial inclusion.
Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.
On the outcome hangs the preservation of the nation state and the genuinely democratic government.
The Chancellor has been fortunate that the public finances have improved substantially at a particularly convenient time.
£2.6 billion of the sum the government accepted as the compensation owed has still not been paid.
This is a robust, Conservative policy that enhances the stability of our society by encouraging and supporting prudent financial decision-making.
The old, with their savings, could help the young. The economically active young could help the old, by giving them an income.
It would raise funds from those who have amassed savings during lockdown, without resorting to punitive taxation.