Tax breaks for married couples.
Tory proposals regarding tax breaks for married couples with children hold a narrow and short-sighted focus not just in their alienating the roles, successes and problems experienced by an increasingly diverse number of family types, but also their ignorance toward the origins of troubles families might experience in supporting their children: the availability and cost […]
Voters to control local spending.
Hazel Blears has today made her first public announcement in her role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, where she declared revolutionary proposals to give greater control to local communities over the budgets of their councils.
In what could prove a small move toward direct democracy, the suggested proposals would require councils to […]