I'm going to guess that that "necessary uplift in pay" part is a big chunk of the reason. "We should change the way we've always done things, in a way that involves a lot mor… (View Post)

I live in this council area. I'm not 100% convinced about the 4-day-week theories, but I definitely don't think running a trial of it rises to a level that justifies central government stic… (View Post)

On the topic, re "After John Major’s miracle in 1992 things quickly fell apart for the Tories, who went behind in the polls before Christmas and never regained the lead", in Major's re… (View Post)

Now there's a fun hypothetical policy -- the government specifies the amount of money it wants to raise and a few other constraints, and then a technocratic HMRC chooses what levels of income ta… (View Post)

If Boris told me something that turned out not to be true I know who would be first on my list of people likely to have been duplicitous, and it wouldn't be Rishi... (View Post)