My idea for the Progressive manifesto is a fairer funding system for university tuition. This would be achieved by introducing a graduate tax so that essentially students contributions were relevent to what they financially gained from their degrees. Jack Storrytest
1. Implement a new ‘social responsibility levy’ on bonuses for those salaried over £200k annually, using the proceeds to create a PAYE Reward Fund to give a little back to the vast majority of the working population who pay theirtest
An international levy on financial speculation need no longer be a mere pipedream. Approximately $1 trillion is traded daily on currency markets – with speculators able to smash jobs and ruin lives on a whim and for a fast buck,test
This week the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos published twelve tests that Cameron must meet by 2012 to fulfil his pledge to have governed as a progressive. One in particular stands out. The Conservatives cannot credibly claim to be progressive while supporting a cut in inheritance tax.
Michael Gove has spent a long time over the past few years brandishing his credentials as a zealous reformer, committed to freeing up schools and finally breaking the link between background and achievement. In these terms, his speech yesterday attest
Anyone listening to the Today programme this morning, as discussion began of the Conservatives’ plan to raise the retirement age, could be in no doubt as to how much the media consensus has firmed up behind a virility contest amongtest
Yesterday’s announcement from the International Air Transport Association sees more vapour trail and mirrors being employed by the airline industry in an attempt to persuade the world that they care about climate change and want to cut emissions. This new approach will not mean substantial or real cuts in emissions.
Leaders taking part in the G20, G8+5, and G8 summits over the past year have pledged in effect to reconstitute the international economic order along the lines that progressives have been advocating for years. But for these objectives to be achieved they will need to be translated into major structural improvements in the corresponding multilateral and national institutions.
‘Metro mayors’ would mark a real shift in the balance of power from Whitehall to cities, re-engage millions of voters and provide a clear alternative to quangoland. The next Government should go for them.
The IPPR’s latest report reveals that Government, business and communities need to do more to encourage people to adopt a more low-carbon lifestyle.
