Britain Unleashed: ten ideas to revive our economy
1. Make taxes lower, simpler and flatter. Every minute spent wrestling with a tax return is a minute taken off work. Every penny spent on accountants' fees is a penny passed on to customers. The...
View Article'Predistribution' is an interesting idea. But what exactly is Ed Miliband...
So Ed Miliband's new big idea is "predistribution." Rather than trying to make society more equal by further increasing redistribution (by increasing taxes and benefits) Ed has been setting out how he...
View ArticleLabour may be on firmer ground on the minimum wage than they are on benefit cuts
At a lunch before the 1992 general election I remember Michael Howard, then the employment secretary, taking me to task over the rack of lamb about my support for Labour's call for the introduction of...
View ArticleAmerica's low-paid workers: a scandal that reminds me of India
Last week Washington DC held one of several hundred strikes that were promised for 135 cities around America where those in so-called "McJobs" earning $7.25 (GBP4.45) an hour, or local minimum wage...
View ArticleMinimum wage: in his efforts to defeat Labour, Osborne risks mimicking them
What is he like?! One minute George Osborne is a Tory telling us a rise in the minimum wage is self defeating and bad for business, the next he's a neo-Labour Chancellor handing out largesse to the...
View ArticleEvening Briefing: George Osborne wants £7 minimum wage
This is from the @TelePolitics Evening Briefing. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox for free STEALING ED'S LIMELIGHT George Osborne said the Government wants a big increase in the national...
View ArticleWith Labour on the spot, Ed Miliband's day of reckoning has arrived
From my Morning Briefing email: subscribe here The Day of Reckoning, says the Mirror's headline, alongside a piece from Ed Miliband setting up his speech today on banks, the economy and the cost of...
View ArticleWhat's the point of increasing the minimum wage if employers don't pay it?
Half of voters reckon that "the Conservative Party only represents the interests of the rich": increasing the minimum wage may offer the Tories the best hope of getting that figure down to a less...
View ArticleA reckoning is coming, Ed Miliband. But not the one you're hoping for
George Osborne’s announcement last night he supports an increase in the minimum wage to £7 an hour has shot Ed Miliband’s fox. And his cat, his dog, his goldfish, his hamster and his Bolivian marmoset...
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