Research indicates that Conservative proposals will increase incentives for the unemployed to return to work, but it won’t reduce poverty.
- Professor of Economics, Queen's University Belfast
Labour claims that the bedroom tax has hit over half a million people, two-thirds of them disabled. Has it?
A few anecdotes about dodgy private training colleges don’t mean the whole system is broken.
Lord Freud’s comments that some disabled people were “not worth” paying the full minimum wage – that they are somehow worth less than others – have caused widespread offence. But by bringing the issue…
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