The way you’ve described her does suggest she has traditional ideas about gender roles. (View Post)

Relative poverty is based on the median. Making your average rich (i.e. above median) person somewhat poorer will have zero effect on the median. Likewise, making them richer (even way, way richer) h… (View Post)

But the "leak" here was from the OBR. I don't see why Reeves should be blamed for it. (View Post)

Relative poverty is not ineradicable. If you define relative poverty as, say, 60% of the median wage, then it is straightforward (in mathematical terms) to have a distribution with no-one in relative… (View Post)

We're not the lowest in Europe either, no. There's also the difficulty with making figures comparable. The Swiss figure is low, but I think that's because it excludes healthcare. Switzerland has a sy… (View Post)