The election of Sir Ed Davey as new Leader of the Liberal Democrats means the UK’s traditional centre party is likely to endorse a version of a universal basic income (UBI), given their new leader’s previous public support. Formal support of a UBI by the Liberal Democrats will help to further ‘mainstream’ the concept of the UBI, a policy often wrongly cast as a utopian fantasy of the radical left.
There are as many different variants of a UBI as they are proponents. Much like ‘Brexit’ or ‘House of Lords Reform’, people can support it for completely different reasons and […]
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