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.
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Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
A study is being used to justify more Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, a scheme that will hit plumbers, electricians and other tradesmen hardest.
The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.
“Our values are rooted in the fundamental belief that individual freedom enables both the greatest achievement and the gentlest kindness.”
“I am committing myself to a single priority – to create, support and extend opportunity to as many people as I can.”
I believe this is a moment of opportunity, when we should become a nation that champions people who start a business.
The Small Business Grant scheme should cover these businesses – and the furloughing plan allow sole company directors to work.
Large numbers of people are falling through the eligibility gaps – caught between schemes for the employed and self-employed.
The job now needs to be completed by shoring up workers’ incomes and firms’ revenues to as close to 100 per cent as is practical.
It will take a vast New Deal of actual spending to lift Europe out of Coronavirus slump and head off a deflationary depression.
There will also be a longer-term cost of possible tax changes for the self-employed, but for now these are not the issue.
The tax benefits of being self-employed should reflect genuine value added relative to normal employment.
We found over a million people excluded from the Government schemes are struggling to pay for food and everyday essentials.