Yesterday was a depressing day on the economy. Unlike the constant gloom from the Eurozone, the latest unemployment figures felt very immediate and close to home. An extra 63,000 unemployed young people aged 18-25 was a worse increase than I had feared and raises the worries that once again we will have a generation scarred…
Housing Benefit – always a difficult area of policy – is going to cause real problems in the coalition government. Boris Johnson has now parked his tanks on the Prime Ministers lawn. So watch this stand off – it could be very interesting. http://www.channel4.com/news/boris-johnson-joins-housing-benefit-row Where house prices are high Housing Benefit has to be high…
