Yesterday, obscure fact fans, was the 98th anniversary of the first Parliament Act*. The Parliament Act 1911 came about because of Asquith, Lloyd George and Churchill’s 1909 ‘People’s Budget’ which proposed paying for, among other things, the first state pension with a rise in taxation aimed mostly at the most wealthy – and in [...]
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There is nothing random about local control of public services
Both Sunder Katwala and Grant Shapps are quite wrong: not only is local variation a price more than worth paying for local control, but it would end the phenomena of postcode lotteries.
“Postcode lottery” is a cliché, and a peculiarly British one. Why is it, for example, that the only references on Google to “zip [...]
