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My Council Tax is suspiciously cheap. Here's why that should bother you (and eventually me) (opens the original)
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Hannah Aldridge looks at the problems with Council Tax and how we can fix them.Last year, when I found out that my Council Tax bill was going up by 5 per cent (“5 PER CENT!”), I reminded myself that I’m one of the lucky ones: I live in Hackney, where Council Tax bills are among the lowest in the country. As a proportion of what the home I live in is worth, though, I pay around 0.4 per cent a year. Friends in Newcastle pay roughly four times that rate (1.7 per cent) on a home worth a fraction of
Crowd-pleasing cost of living measures risk being self-defeating (opens the original)
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Ruth Curtice and James Smith outline the potential pitfalls of blanket cost of living support at a time of high borrowing costs and pacey price rises. Andy Burnham came into office promising to find “breathing space” for families struggling with the cost of living, and backed it with a (temporary?) VAT cut to energy bills. But having admitted more is needed, and as wholesale energy prices once again peak, expectations are running high for future announcements in the upcoming Budget.As a thinktan
The triple lock is a symbol of a society that has stolen the young’s future (opens the original)
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We used to think that old people were poor and poor people were old. That belief still lingers and is why there is such support for the triple lock, which puts up pensions by inflation, earnings or 2.5% whichever is higher. But pensioners are better off than ever. Indeed, our research at Resolution Foundation shows that, after allowing for household size and for housing costs, the typical pensioner is now as well off as the typical working age family. And the poorest 10% of pensioners are <a hre
What are the big policy challenges facing Andy Burnham? (opens the original)
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To mark the publication of the latest edition of the Policy Landscape 2026, Anand Menon and Ruth Curtice reflect on the key policy challenges confronting the UK.Andy Burnham has got off to a decent start as Prime Minister. Yet this early success has been largely ‘vibes based’. To be credible, the Budget and the ten year plan coming this Autumn will have to face the much more difficult challenge of telling us how the Government will navigate the big trade-offs it will confront, challenges spelled
Is net zero reindustrialising the North? (opens the original)
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Zachary Leather looks at how green industries can contribute to local economic growth.In 2024 then Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham argued that net zero was “the best chance we will ever have to reindustrialise the North of England, reduce inequality and close the North-South divide”. The Mayor has had a promotion since then but what of his prediction? Sadly, our new research has found that the reality has not lived up to the hype so far – but t
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