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The rollout of universal credit will disproportionately punish single parents, writes director of policy at Gingerbread Dalia Ben-Galim Pressure from Conservative rebels has just forced the chancellor to U-Turn on his budget announcement on self-employment national...

More people in the United Kingdom are classifying themselves as self-employed than at any time since records began, now accounting for over 15 per cent of the workforce. The rising number of self-employed workers has been a major driver of recent employment growth. In...

On a few occasions, as Steve Van Riel notes in The Purple Papers, the Labour government did suggest people should pay more for better public services. When it was a rise in national insurance for the health service, this was largely popular. When it was a levy on...

If Labour wins the next election it will inherit a set of challenges on employment and welfare quite different from those it faced in the late 1990s. Increasing the employment rate will be crucial to increasing living standards, given the reduced scope for...