welfare reform 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...

Welcome to the Department for Work and Pensions. Your new department spends more public money than we spend on the police, schools, hospitals, railways and international development combined. Nearly 20 per cent of government expenditure is spent on benefits, excluding...

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...

For ‘Education, education, education’, read ‘Employment, employment, employment’. Employment for all will be the primary means of bringing about social justice, bringing down the deficit and growing the economy under an Ed Miliband One Nation Labour government. The...