Vidhya Alakeson

Universal Credit: winners and losers

Iain Duncan Smith has found an extra £300m for childcare in his Universal Credit, but women who want to work longer hours will lose out. The result is only going to make households worse off Read more

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‘Generation rent’ needs a helping hand

Without a clear signal from government of its commitment to  build-to-let development, we are unlikely to see  investment take off in a new type of private rented sector   Read more

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Wake-up call on childcare, by Vidhya Alakeson

Speaking at the Liberal Democrat’s Spring Conference, Nick Clegg once again took up the cause of hard working families in Britain – his ‘alarm clock Britain’, the people who want to get up and get on. Read more...

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