Labour has hailed a report calling for the government to spend £42billion a year handing out free housing, food, bus passes, phones and broadband.
The utopian plan, drawn up by a crack team of academics, would involve the state picking up the tab for a range of basic costs.
The researchers at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity say the radical move is needed to counter the ‘rise of the robots’ – as firms increasingly replace human workers with machines.Shadow chancellor John McDonnell praised the ‘bold new’ approach, and said it would ‘help inform Labour’s thinking on how we can build an […]
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