“Lib Dems are thwarting marriage tax breaks”
The Centre for Social Justice says a “tug of war” in the Coalition has meant ministers have so far failed to do enough to help prevent couples from separating. … Read the full post »
Iain Duncan Smith was Leader of the Conservative Party 2001-3 and later a member of the Cabinet.
The Centre for Social Justice says a “tug of war” in the Coalition has meant ministers have so far failed to do enough to help prevent couples from separating. … Read the full post »
Good that Steve Webb’s work on reforming pensions to make them simpler and fairer has got a slot in the legislative agenda. … Read the full post »
The UK’s statistics watchdog has rebuked Iain Duncan Smith over his handling of controversial figures on benefits claimed by immigrants. … Read the full post »
Many Liberal Democrats I’ve spoken to have mixed feelings about the proposed benefit cap and some of the housing benefit changes. … Read the full post »
The highly-critical assessment of the coalition’s first year in power was delivered by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) – which was founded by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. … Read the full post »
As part of the government’s launch of its social mobility strategy this week, Nick Clegg and Iain Duncan Smith co-authored a piece for the Daily Telegraph: Labour couldn’t make up its mind on what goal it was chasing. Social exclusion? Income poverty? Inequality? Social mobility? Lacking a clear agenda, it fixated on just one measure … Read the full post »
The Government’s Welfare Reform Bill is being published today and its measures are mostly as previously trailed. … Read the full post »
Peter Snowdon’s history of the Conservative Party in opposition has four white men on its cover striding towards the reader – Cameron, Osborne, Hague and Clegg. It tells you immediately the sort of book that it is. … Read the full post »
The head of the UK Statistics Authority has issued a public rebuke to welfare ministers over their use of official statistics, warning of “serious deficiencies” in the handling of unemployment data. … Read the full post »
The Coalition Government has had its fair share of tensions over major policy areas, including most notably and most recently welfare reform and the future of Trident. … Read the full post »