Downing Street’s three pension interventions this century.
Intervention one – The Turner Commission. It is useful from time to time to revisit the work of Adair Turner’s Pension Commission which first reported in 2004. 18 years on the generation it considered...
View ArticlePension risk sharing – a bright idea for Labour
It is now 25 years since this country was introduced to “stakeholder economics” – the concept that Government could engender a more friendly form of capitalism where profits were shared more equitably...
View ArticleLabour should pick its fights – capping people’s pensions should not be one...
Labour says re-instating the #pensions lifetime cap would be prudent for the nation’s finances. via @telegraph https://t.co/Q0j0P07OtU — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) April 23, 2023 There are many...
View ArticlePolls lie – votes don’t – why did we vote this way?
The people of England voted against the Conservatives on Thursday – they were unified in that. Those people were not so clear about the alternative, Labour picked up over 500 seats lost, the Liberals...
View ArticleIs Labour ready to manage the pensions brief?
It has been so long since the Labour party had a pensions campaign that I can remember that I had almost forgot they existed. Jonathan Ashworth has exited stage right and is being replaced by Liz...
View ArticleReeves’ bold plans for pensions will challenge the ABI
Rachel Reeves is proposing to shake up Britain’s pension system as part of a three-pronged plan aimed at boosting the economy’s sluggish growth rate if Labour wins the next election. The shadow...
View ArticleLabour’s “securenomics” spell Long Term Assets not Life Time Allowance
If Edmund Truell had been the next Labour Chancellor (unlikely), I would have expected him to have produced a pension policy paper called “Financing Growth”. Four years ago, as the Labour party...
View ArticleWhat are Labour going to do about pensions?
If there is a Labour Pensions Agenda for the next Government , I haven’t seen it yet . But I have seen the TUC’s agenda for the Trade Union Pension Conference today and it doesn’t look like this. It...
View ArticleIs Labour closer to Conservative than Union pension policy?
Much as both the Unions and the Labour Shadow Front Bench would like the answer to that question to be “yes”, it is infact “no”. The Trade Unions are pursuing a public sector agenda that focusses...
View ArticleLabour’s private equity tax puzzler
It’s a rich person’s problem how to minimise tax. Private Equity managers are rich and they stay rich by managing their tax affairs, as they are entitled to , by using non-dom tax concessions and...
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