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Plan C by Prateek Buch

Plan C: The Social Liberal Forum’s economic prognosis

13 March 2012 , , , , , , , ,
There has been a very welcome recent revival of policy thinking in the Liberal Democrats, despite the large cuts to the party’s official policy research staff. This has included a new think tank (Liberal Insight) and good work by Richard Kemp and the local government sector in encouraging imaginative plans for making use of the [...]

Predicting the future: we didn’t turn Japanese

15 February 2011 , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Shortly after the Conservative Party won its fourth general election in a row in 1992, a symposium met to consider the question of whether Britain – formerly a country with regularly rotating government between the two main parties – was turning into a political version of Japan, where the same party had been in power [...]

Hutton review publishes its interim report into fair pay in the public sector

2 December 2010 , ,
Yesterday saw the publication of the interim report from Will Hutton’s Review of Fair Pay in the Public Sector, commissioned by the government. The bald headline from the report is one of modest reform: moving toward recommending the introduction of a 20:1 maximum ratio between the top and bottom salary in any public body. This [...]

A quiet fair pay revolution

24 June 2010 , ,
Largely overlooked in the Budget was the confirmation of plans to introduce across the state sector a new standard for fair pay. The intention is that the best paid will receive no more than 20 times the salary of the lowest paid. There is a wealth of detail still to be worked out, though reassuringly much [...]