Mayoral candidates in the West Midlands have been challenged to take a position on running a pilot study of Basic Income in the region. The policy has been gaining increasing attention in recent months – with qualified endorsements from the Labour leadership , amongst others.
On Wednesday night the two frontrunners in the West Midlands mayoral election, Andy Street (Conservative) and Sion Simon (Labour) were asked at a Citizens UK Assembly of 1,000 people from across the region about a range of proposals to make families better off. A Basic Income pilot was one of these ideas.
The candidates and the […]
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