Jill Rutter, Brexit at UK in a Changing Europe. Any other stuff at Institute for Government. Full Fact fan. Very ex-civil servant. My views not theirs.
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@jillongovt with @deirdreheenan @SJAMcBride Anne Watt @pivotalpolicy and @DavidSterling7 former head of NICS on the politics and upcoming election in Northern Ireland
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“I regard most of the problems in this country as being laid at the door of Jeremy Hunt.”
Ex-BoE deputy Howard Davies says Hunt’s “unfundable” NI cuts trapped Labour, and have boxed in every budget since.
Fair or unfair? #PoliticsUnleashed
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Now pretending petrol duty will rise in July. Was supposed to rise in September. Then January. Who really believes it'll ever happen?
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The answer: keep it simple. Don’t add special allowances and exceptions. Resist the urge to be clever.
No more complexification.
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Basing eligibility for energy support on council tax band does mean that whether or not Andy Burnham sends you £100 depends on what your house was worth in 1991. Not ideal.
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It is so disappointing that four years after the last energy crisis led to a badly-targeted, expensive bill for taxpayers, we are basically in the same position.
Health data would be a much better way of targeting help to those who most need it (and who are expensive to treat).
NEWS ENERGY PAYMENT: £100 payment to all households in Council Tax bands A to D for England (and funding for same in other nations). That's 20m homes.
Translation: This is the support for the huge rise due in January price cap. Its expected to be 27% up. Which equates to roughly £100 from Jan to March alone.
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Just look at the policy measures table in the budget --- it's huge. Runs over many pages. Lots and lots of really
small things
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Great news! Labour is cutting the tax on carers who earn more than the carer’s allowance earning limit.
The new rate is 100%.
That’s a big tax cut, and to be welcomed
(If you think I’m on drugs, please read Paul’s tweet:)
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It is striking that moving away from the triple lock appears to have done absolutely nothing to dent Labour's rise in the polls.
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The way plunging us into six months of darkness, which is bad for mental and physical health, and women’s safety, is somehow presented as a win.
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PM announced at PMQs that the Government will consult on ending standing charges on gas bills … Chancellor and energy secretary will review.
Unexpected. Would be a significant shift.
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Horrible decision from Welsh ministers not to go ahead with a much-needed update of property valuations for council tax in 2028, having previously voted for the legislation. Inexcusable. 1/3 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ly…
Good news for Olly Robbins and the govt. But the JR would have been really interesting.
FDA statement on settlement agreement for Sir Oliver Robbins.
ALT Press release from FDA union titled "Sir Oliver Robbins - Settlement Agreement" The FDA is pleased that the Government has settled out of court to rectify the circumstances surrounding Sir Oliver Robbins’s departure from the civil service. Sir Oliver Robbins said: “I am grateful for all the support and good wishes from former colleagues, friends and strangers, which have helped me and my family during this difficult time. I want to thank the FDA for their assistance in reaching this settlement and I am looking forward to moving on to the next chapter of my life”.
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The Shadow Chancellor doesn’t understand his own policy - it will give people a massive incentive not to downsize (and even to upsize). If you’re in a £2m home and want to downsize to a £1m house you won’t if Tory plans increase your IHT bill by £400,000 if you do so
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This misunderstands incentive effects.
Someone with a £2m house who downsizes to a £1m house will, under the Tories' new IHT policy, *increase* their estate's IHT by £400k.
A powerful incentive not to downsize.
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'At a stroke, Badenoch 2026 is throwing away a lot of the gains from Badenoch 2025... Badenoch presented this as a growth policy. It is the reverse.'
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Sometimes I miss important nuances of new policies, in the political mayhem. Here is one such. When I heard Andy Burnham say the triple lock would not be reformed until 2030, I assumed it would be a battle for the next general election campaign. But in fact the government has committed to legislate for the change in this parliament (see attached Downing Street statement). That will cause an almighty parliamentary row, which the UK’s creditors will be watching - but should counter-act the charge that Burnham has no fiscal backbone, because in theory the cost savings will be guaranteed long before the huge costs of his social care ambitions are being incurred
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We don’t get to talk about reforming the EU from outside it. And to claim we do just winds them up.
I got complacent about political speeches. I forgot they can move you, make you feel something. It was a real privilege to be in that room yesterday and be reminded what politics can do.
For politics also moves systems, people, barriers (just look at what Milburn has done on NEETs) Perhaps the biggest movement of all is with our nearest neighbours. Britain should drop its red lines and watch the political capital this generates, enabling us to be part of a conversation on the future of Europe and then, eventually, a new Europe fit for the new world we’re in.
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A better way to think of savings from the triple lock :
Under the old triple lock, government would have had to find an extra £11bn by the end of the next decade. Now they won't have to.
They've removed an unfunded pressure.
This does not translate into cash for social care
