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Author Archives: Fiona Melville
Knowledge is porridge
Ben Gummer‘s Ten Minute Rule Bill (to be introduced tomorrow) builds on something we suggested years ago. Well, two things, in fact. Firstly, that a sensible discussion about the size and scope of the state must start from a clear … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Accountability, MPs, Open Government, Public Spending, Responsibility, Spending, Taxpayers, Transparency
3 Comments
How Ed Miliband could build on his Conservative idea
The more I read about this welfare cap, the crosser I get. Not because it will take money away from anyone – far from it, frankly; more because it will still give people who don’t work over three times the … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged Benefits, Ed Miliband, Minimum Wage, Squeezed Middle, Welfare, Welfare reform
7 Comments
Aren’t these modernising groups just today’s Conservative Party?
For some time, it has irked me that the government says it will remove funding from a particular programme, there’s a storm of protest, and then it says it won’t. I’d like you to set aside the merits of any … Continue reading
Reviewing our budget properly every ten years
I read somewhere – and have entirely forgotten where – recently a new idea for government spending. That every ten years (say), the government should have a requirement to cut (say) ten per cent from its spending. I have no … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Future-building, Public services, Public Spending, Responsibility, Tax
4 Comments
The Iron Lady isn’t about politics
I’m not one of the most ardent Thatcherites that ever walked the earth; nor am I one of those who despises everything she did. I am a Conservative and I am female and she achieved many great things but also … Continue reading