The Caithness Business Index has posted the following article:

General election 2019 IFS Manifesto Analysis - Welfare Spending And The Labour Market

Welfare spending and the labour market Considering the scale of increases they propose on public service and investment spending Labour's proposals on working age welfare spending are relatively modest, undoing only just over half the cuts implemented since 2015 and less than a quarter of those put in place since 2010. Conservative proposals appear to be all but non-existent, though the continued roll out of Universal Credit, a benefit that will be received by more than a quarter of working age households, is of course a big ongoing change in itself. [Read Full Article]