Babelfish launches Peoplenomics: four people-first policies, modelled by NIESR and CEBR, that could add £36bn to UK GDP and cut inflation. Put people first.
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Politics should be the art of making life better. In Britain right now, it too often feels like the opposite.
The right has no answers to the cost of living, the energy crisis or the hollowing out of public services. What it has is a strategy: keep people angry and hope no one notices who's picking their pocket.
The country deserves better. We're here to demand it.
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End £30bn bank benefits, tax wealth like work, break the gas price link, launch a rooftop solar revolution and build 1.4m homes. Peoplenomics in five steps.
From King John's 1203 wool tax to the poll tax that sparked riots, 800 years of UK tax history show unfair taxes provoke revolt – and fair ones build nations.
Survation polling finds 59% of Britons back a 2% wealth tax on fortunes over £10m, while 63% say the wealthiest don't pay their fair share. Over to you, Andy.
Peoplenomics: price control, rooftop solar and tax reform put money in people's pockets – and could double UK growth. A new orthodoxy for Burnham's Labour.
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
Lord Sikka sets out how PM Andy Burnham can raise billions within Labour's fiscal rules – from ending bank subsidies to taxing capital gains like wages.
The UK tax gap is projected to hit £59.2bn in 2024/25, almost double what it was seven years ago. Every 1% costs nearly £10bn – and the gap is still widening.
Raising the personal allowance to £15,570 would leave low earners £600 a year better off. Dale Vince says ending £30bn in bank subsidies could pay for it.
A wealth tax and capital gains reform could raise £36bn. With 50 UK families owning as much as half the country, the Chancellor must be bold this Budget.
A 2% wealth tax on fortunes over £10m could raise £24bn a year for UK public services and climate action – and 76% of Britons back it. Here's why it's fair.
Reform UK's £72m from crypto billionaires has Labour MPs demanding a cap on political donations. Dale Vince says £50m a year could clean up British politics.
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