Osborne’s ‘granny tax’ will sting those on a personal pension of just £67 a week
George Osborne’s ‘granny tax’ will hit new pensioners on a personal or occupational pension of just £67 a week, new research reveals today.
Social Justice
Breaking down the Youth Contract
As Nick Clegg formally launches the Youth Contract today, Izzy Koksal explains how everybody, taxpayers and the unemployed alike, are getting a rough deal.
Budget 2012: The myth that lower taxes for the rich generates more tax revenue
Danny Dorling of the IPPR demolishes the myth, pedalled by George Osborne and the one per cent, that the tax take on the rich rises the less they are taxed.
The reality of life as one of Ken Clarke’s ‘fat cat legal aid lawyers’
Harriet Williams looks at the reality of life as one of Ken Clarke’s ‘fat cat legal aid lawyers’.
Time to make the housing recovery a political priority
Lord Whitty, chair of Housing Voice, calls on politicians of all parties to make the housing recovery a priority.
The charts that shame the “we’re all in this together” coalition
Alison Garnham of the Child Poverty Action Group, challenges the coalition to defend how the distributional analysis of their tax and benefit changes is fair.
New report warns legal aid cuts will pile pressure on MPs’ surgeries
Will Horwitz reports that MPs’ surgeries will see a dramatic surge in people seeking legal help after the legal aid cuts are introduced in April 2013.
Tory and Crossbench peers lead the revolt against Clarke’s legal aid cuts
Jonny Mulligan of the Sound Off for Justice campaign reports on the latest House of Lords defeats for the government in the LASPO bill over legal aid cuts.
Remploy closures: “This callous coalition government have no sense whatsoever”
The coalition government’s decision to oversee the closure of 36 of Remploy’s 54 factories has been greeted with expressions of extreme disappointment.
The financial and personal cost of the legal aid cuts laid bare
Left Foot Forward looks at the legal aid cuts, and the costs to services, people and the taxpayer of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.