HM Revenue and Customs has issued a formal warning to parents of teenagers across the United Kingdom that Child Benefit payments worth up to £1,406.60 per year will cease automatically from 1 September unless eligible households extend their claims before…
New figures compiled by the TaxPayers’ Alliance reveal that 45 of 131 trade union bosses in Britain earned more than £100,000 last year, with one in six receiving total remuneration packages worth £170,000 or more — a sum equivalent to…
When John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in June, he did so with a clear and unambiguous demand: Britain must commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030. It was a principled stand, and his subsequent…
The normal retirement age across the European Union is projected to increase by approximately two years for men and 2.6 years for women between now and the late 2060s, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Pensions at…
A Problem That Has Outlasted Every Prime Minister Who Tried to Solve It Social care reform has defeated every administration that has attempted it since the Royal Commission on Care convened in 1999. In the quarter-century since, twenty-two inquiries and…
What is Burnham actually proposing? Andy Burnham has made reducing Britain’s £333 billion welfare bill a central ambition of his new premiership. The centrepiece of his emerging approach would require young people to engage in training or voluntary work as…
A flagship immigration reform is already showing cracks, and the new Prime Minister has yet to fully commit to it. Andy Burnham has signalled he may water down the proposal advanced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that would require most…
Why is social care back on the political agenda? Adult social care is one of those perennial policy failures that successive governments have circled, promised to fix, and ultimately left untouched. Now Andy Burnham, the new Prime Minister, is signalling…
Britain’s social care system is broken, and the government knows it. The question is whether the political will to fix it can outlast the institutional inertia that has defeated every previous attempt. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to deliver…
Salman Rushdie took the witness stand in a Buffalo federal courtroom on Thursday, sitting yards from the man who nearly killed him, and described in measured detail the attack that cost him his right eye and came within a millimetre…