Rishi Sunak will talk about ‘levelling up’, but desperate communities should prepare for more funding cutsWhen Rishi Sunak stands in front of the Commons for the spending review next week, the chancellor will no doubt serve up “build back better” buzzw…
The pandemic ought to be the turning point in the debate about private schools | Frances Ryan
The gulf in provision for private and state pupils has never been starker. Who can doubt now that they entrench privilege?Keir Starmer’s pledge earlier this week to end the lucrative tax breaks given to private schools has predictably brought out the u…
The universal credit cut is outrageous, but this callousness is nothing new | Frances Ryan
From the bedroom tax to ESA reductions, a gulf between those who make policy and those affected by it has brought a decade of miseryNext month, universal credit will be cut back by £20 to its pre-pandemic level. A policy that will – by the admission of…
Boris Johnson has created a ‘social care plan’ without any plan for social care | Frances Ryan
The prime minister had a chance to effect real reform. Instead, he chose the Tory base over disabled people and care workersTwo years after Boris Johnson promised a plan for social care, it can hardly be said that today’s announcement was “worth the wa…