Boosting early years' childcare is a no brainer: - Keeping more parents in the workforce will improve economic activity and reduce the extent to which their careers stall - More affordable child… (View Post)

I would also add that I'd do away with central pay scales for public sector pay and let negotiation happen at a much more localised level. That would reduce my the number of areas where the priv… (View Post)

Yes and that inflation over the last 3 months (since the last price cap increase) has been just 0.2%. It's very encouraging. Unfortunately for the government the biggest falls in the headline ra… (View Post)

Particularly as we're still below pre-Covid GDP. Hard to make a big thing of arguing we're not in recession when we haven't recovered from the last one and the BoE is predicting we… (View Post)

The trouble Labour has is there is no additional money to spend, except perhaps on investment. There are plenty of pro-growth reform ideas out there that don't cost money. But if they are popula… (View Post)