MARK DRAKEFORD’s announcement that the Welsh Government plans to trial Universal Basic Income in a few locations in Wales captured headlines in online media.
The First Minister was variously said to have ‘hinted’ at a trial or announced a trial would take place.
However, nobody should have been surprised by the First Minister’s announcement. Not only was the policy contained in Labour’s Manifesto for May 6’s election – a bit more than ’a hint’ – but also the principle of holding a trial in Wales was enthusiastically passed by the last Welsh Parliament in September last year. It was a policy […]
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