What do the public care about? Well, outside immigration and the economy, the pollsters tell us that there is one...
Deprecated: Function wp_make_content_images_responsive is deprecated since version 5.5.0! Use wp_filter_content_tags() instead. in /home/edadbce1/archive.progressivebritain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114
work and welfare Articles
Time for a citizen’s income?
Anthony Painter and Karen Buck debate the merits of a basic income for all [column-group][column] Yes Anthony Painter...
Labour must expose serious failings behind universal credit
The evolution of universal credit from a radical change in the social contract to a means to reach Tory savings...
The escape from poverty
Labour made strong progress in the battle against poverty and unemployment, finds Anne Begg When the Labour government...
Exposing Iain Duncan Smith’s mess
It is perhaps no surprise given the number of alternative political stories on offer as parliament returned from the...
It’s tax credits, stupid
Labour needs to defend low-income families The chancellor made a great play in his July budget of announcing the...
100 days of Tory majority
100 days ago this weekend, Labour party members were falling exhausted into their beds as the rest of the country was...
The choice before Labour
The single most important foundation stone for Labour’s recovery is a renewed commitment to a strong economy, and that...
The Last Word … Hat’s entertainment
Terrible, isn’t it? How can a grown man take a pun, an unrecognisable one at that, and seek to turn it into an...
Welfare reform – what do employers want?
The unemployment figures are finally heading in the right direction – but beneath the headlines there is an...
Winning over the self-employed
The announcement last week that the government had appointed its first ever ‘self-employment tsar’ reflects an...
Taking self-employment to the mainstream
Self-employment is growing rapidly. Since the turn of the century there has been a 30 per cent increase in the number...