Can Theresa May be trusted to protect workers’ rights?
Beyond the talk, the PM’s Brexit team will likely bargain our rights for trade
Tory Conference
Are the Tories starting to see sense on housing?
If the government wants to help the ‘left behind’ then housing is the place to start
Cameron’s Speech: Reaction and Response
This piece presents a round-up of press and others’ reaction to David Cameron’s speech at the Tory Conference today.
Cameron will lose England another million low rent homes
Pete Challis details how the right to buy demolished England’s housing stock.
Reducing job security won’t decrease unemployment
Sara Ibrahim shows how reducing job security by weakening the tribunals system won’t decrease unemployment.
Just who WILL Osborne listen to?
We’re in a unique political economy, one in which there is no market discipline on the government pursuing the wrong economic policy. The sight of George Osborne starting his speech with the FTSE down 1.8% best illustrates the economists’ problem:test
Government continues not being greenest ever
Following on from Hammond’s environmentally destructive attempt at populism on Friday, the Conservatives have this weekend struck two more blows against their own claim to be the greenest government ever. Firstly, Friends of the Earth released a report which concludedtest
‘Back of a fag packet’ housing policy continues
Kevin Gulliver is the director of Birmingham-based research charity The Human City Institute and chair of the Centre for Community Research but writes in a personal capacity; his interests are social and economic policy, especially relating to housing, health, communities and inequalities.test
Osborne dreaming of a race to the bottom
Alex Hern argues that much of the chancellor George Osborne’s plans for economic growth will put the UK in a race to the bottom which it cannot possibly win.
Tories whitewash the millions set to lose from welfare reform
Sue Marsh presents her first thoughts on Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith’s speeches on welfare reform at the Conservative party conference today.