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Great to see coverage of our proposals to use housing 'fairness taxes' to triple social housing construction in The Guardian

What's missing from Labour's pledge card?

Triple the number of new social houses, paid for by taxing long-term empty properties, house-flipping and overseas owners, says Social Market Foundation Deputy Research Director Jamie Gollings.

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💥New! Labour lack a “grand theory” of economics and have some blind spots, but they still have a significant, pragmatic economic agenda, writes
Neil Lee echoing a new review by Social Market Foundation.
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My Social Market Foundation colleague Niamh was in City A.M. over the weekend explaining why young people want more say over their pensions, and what the government can do about it

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Allowing employees to choose their pension provider and consolidate their contributions into one pot is popular with Gen Z, who frequently move jobs, and could help them be more financially secure in the future

Says Niam O Regan from Social Market Foundation

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While we wait for Jeremy Hunt's election analysis of the opposition's tax and spending plans, here's an excellent - and more balanced - primer from SMF's Aveek Bhattacharya on Labour's economic strategy

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Migration day in front of the Home Affairs Committee yesterday, discussing the Govt's 5-pt plan measures to reduce immigration.
Over two hours: from social care to students and family to business
And me for the second half of it. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/50…?

'We don't see what [the Home Office] see, so it's hard to have a rational debate.'

ICYMI, catch JonathanThomas at Home Affairs Committee' session on legal migration, talking about the need for the Home Office evidence to be put forth transparently.

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Today’s Labour pledge card is the opportunity I didn’t need to plug Aveek Bhattacharya and I’s Social Market Foundation collection

Labour economics: thinking through Labour’s economic policy

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Gordon Brown had post neoclassical endogenous growth theory, what does Rachel Reeves have? Me on how Labour intends to achieve the highest growth rate in the G7