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Hard not to conclude that's a fairly thin Queen's Speech. Reasonable people might say that's understandable given the Government has had this pandemic thing to deal with. But it's quite
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We've got a problem. Having been through a huge crisis where the welfare state was centre stage, our debates on where next for social security are stuck. An immediate policy
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UK families have seen MUCH deeper income hits during the pandemic than those in France and Germany. Headline finding from a new @resfoundation deep dive comparing financial resilience between Europe's
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Something we didn't have time to do justice to overnight... defence spending. I think most people will be quite surprised by what is going on You'll remember a few weeks
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To distract us from the excitement of who you will/wont see over Christmas the government is putting on a Spending Review tomorrow. What should you expect? New economic forecasts will
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The spread of local lockdowns is rightly seeing everyone raising the issue of inadequacy of economic support, from local leaders to Louise Casey. But it's really important to focus on
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3. Sunak's plans mean taking £1k away from 1 in 3 households in the Red Wall. Lots of new Tory MPs are going to see over 4 in 10 of
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Cutting benefit by £1,000 for millions of families - some history lessons... A threadhttps://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/death-by-1000-cuts/ It's exactly 5yrs since G. Osborne arrived at Tory conference under fire for pla
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Full @resfoundation analysis of the Chancellor's Winter Economy Plan (with thanks to the team for sleep loss overnight). The short version: the policy does not match the rhetoric on protecting
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Chancellor's Job Support Scheme is a big deal that will (temporarily) stem but not halt the rise in unemployment coming. A thread... This is basically an extension and reformatting of
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Current situation: phasing back in restrictions while phasing out the economic support. Not going to fly. Task now is to 1) learn the lessons from economic support policy in the
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£500 payments if you have to isolate and can’t work is the carrot part of No10’s renewed drive to get people to take quarantine seriously (the stick bit is £1,000
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