Frank Field MP Articles

1 December marks the 70th anniversary of the Beveridge report. The aim of the report was to change welfare as voters had known it. Seven decades on it hasn’t quite turned out like that. Both William Beveridge, and, more importantly, Clement Attlee, were clear that...

Voters get tough on welfare. That was the punchline in the chapter on welfare in the recently published British Attitudes Survey.  This significant change in attitude does not follow previous cyclical trends where increasing unemployment was accompanied by a more...

The world is, thankfully, full of temptations and the latest to face the Labour party has the label ‘long-term care’ attached to it. The particular form of care reform now on offer must be resisted by Labour. Partly on the simple grounds that it does nothing to help...

Three hearty cheers for Louise Casey. Her report published last week dealing, euphemistically, with troubled families, will be seen in history as a milestone in reforming our client-based welfare state. Casey was no doubt critical of the term of references she was...