Every adult in the UK should receive a weekly basic income of £48, according to the recommendations in a new report.The move could be paid for by scrapping more than 1,000 tax reliefs, Professor Guy Standing’s report says.The Labour Party has welcomed the report, but insisted it was an independent report which it would study ahead of drawing up its next manifesto.
Paying everyone a basic income has been suggested previously and is already being trialled in other countries.
The latest report, entitled Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy, was written by Professor Standing, an authority on the […]
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