The Lead: Scrap the Cap!

The two-child benefit cap is indefensible. It's got to go.

The Lead — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:23:03 GMT

If you live in the UK, it is very likely that at some point today, you passed by a child in deep, Dickensian poverty. Over 3 million children - a quarter of the total of young people under 16 - are considered poor in the UK. This isn’t because the government can’t afford it. The UK is still one of the wealthiest co…

Keeping the two-child benefit cap is deeply irresponsible borrowing

The Lead — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:04:38 GMT

We are now days away from Budget, with no signs from Labour that they’ll budge on their inexplicable decision to keep one of George Osborne’s most odious policies: the two-child cap on benefits. True, Keir Starmer has said it will be scrapped at some point in the future when fiscal conditions allow. But even with fiscal rules now rightly set to be redef…

Entrepreneurs’ Relief is a grift—and does nothing for Britain. Scrap it.

The Lead — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:43:20 GMT

By Mike Harris

I know a thing or two about business. My company has been in the Financial Times 1000 fastest growing businesses not once (2022), but twice (2024). It's one of the 100 very fastest-growing companies in the UK, so - perhaps unlike many of the entrepreneurs who just wrote to Rachel Reeves to demand a tax break at the expense of everyone else