child benefit Articles

Time for child benefit accounts All three parties will be competing for the ‘family vote’ in 2015. The Tories and Liberal Democrats have pledged a tax-free childcare subsidy of £1,500 per child. Labour has committed to 25 hours’ free nursery education for three- and...

Labour’s proposal to cut winter fuel allowances for higher-rate taxpayers suggests we may be joining the Tories and Liberal Democrats in dismantling the inheritance of Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and William Beveridge – at the top of a slippery slope towards a US-style...

A fiercely political chancellor, George Osborne has long been a better reader of the opinion polls than steward of the nation’s economy. Unsurprisingly, he has homed in on public perceptions that Labour cannot be trusted to run the economy in general, and control...

Yesterday's’s budget needed to provide an economic and political narrative for the voters of middle England who gave David Cameron the benefit of the doubt – with many misgivings – three years ago, and who have tolerated grim times since. Instead, it reinforced the...