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There is no legislative basis for the introduction of a statutory minimum wage for London, yet the very different nature of the London economy combined with the fact that the low paid in London are paid more than elsewhere prompts the…
Liam Byrne was right to remind us a few weeks ago that Beveridge’s system was fundamentally one of insurance, where people make payments in order to be protected against events outside their control; he’d have been horrified at the thought…
Those on the left have long presumed that there was more to life than the simple maximisation of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Over forty years ago, Robert Kennedy shortly before he died observed that it ‘measures everything…
Britain is stuck in a paradox of thrift. We – members of the public, the companies we work for – have noticed that the economic news seems bad and so we are being as sensible and cautious as possible. The problem is, when we all think like…
By Kitty Ussher MP Bad news: there's going to be another banking crisis. No, I don't have any inside information, it's just that there always is. Impossible to tell when it will happen but it is certain that we won't spot the signs early…
