On Saturday the Shadow Chancellor launched the first of Labour’s regional economic conferences in Liverpool Labour has set up a “working group” to investigate the radical idea of a basic income and will report back on its conclusions before the next general election, John McDonnell has said.
In an exclusive interview with The Independent the Shadow Chancellor appeared to signal his desire to bring basic income in the party’s manifesto. The concept involves overhauling the welfare state and ditching means-tested benefits in favour of unconditional flat-rate payments to all citizens.
During the summer of 2016 Mr McDonnell, who has been the […]
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