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Webb’s pension reform: one more step in the nationalisation of welfare
Philip Booth
16 January 2013
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Earlier this week, the government announced a new pension reform which would involve the creation of a flat-rate state pension at around the minimum level of income deemed necessary to support a...
The seen and the unseen - benefits, and the taxes used to finance them
Philip Booth
3 March 2011
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This week, Pensions Minister Steve Webb MP described the views of the authors of Sharing the burden - How the older generation should suffer its share of the cuts as “loathsome”. It...
All liberals and Conservatives should reject Steve Webb’s pension proposals
Philip Booth
27 October 2010
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The rumoured proposals for a new state pension are straight from the Lib Dem handbook. Clearly, Steve Webb has been given complete control of this aspect of policy and all the old liberal and...

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