Torsten Bell
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Torsten Bell said
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"It's a very bad idea to be removing the temporary uplift to " 
chroniclelive Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:29:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“What actually matters for the public finances — and whether further significant tax rises will be needed in future Budgets — is what actually happens to the economy rather than what is forecast to happen to it,”
politico-eu Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:07:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"This plan would mean the level of our basic unemployment benefit would be cut to its lowest level since 1992. "
themirror Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:53:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"This plan would mean the level of our basic unemployment benefit would be cut to its lowest level since 1992. "
chroniclelive Sunday, January 17, 2021 7:17:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"This plan would mean the level of our basic unemployment benefit would be cut to its lowest level since 1992. "
themirror Sunday, January 17, 2021 5:27:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“The history of pandemics shows that people want to go out afterwards,” “That’s why the Twenties were called the ‘Roaring Twenties’, with new dances like the Charleston invented. The hedonism was in part a reaction to coming out of the Spanish flu pandemic”
newstatesman Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:12:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"Austerity is not going to feel like it's over for lower-income families because the chancellor yesterday (Wednesday) chose to continue with plans to cut £1,000 from six million households' benefits next April at a time when unemployment will be nearing its peak. "That is in the end, I think, untenable and we are expecting the chancellor to change his mind on that at some point, but he chose not to do so yesterday (Wednesday)"
bbc Thursday, November 26, 2020 4:50:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“While the priority now is to support the economy, the permanent damage to the public finances means taxes will rise in future,”
businessday Thursday, November 26, 2020 4:01:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"While the priority now is to support the economy, the permanent damage to the public finances mean taxes will rise in future," "The pandemic is just the latest of three 'once in a lifetime' economic shocks the UK experienced in a little over a decade, following the financial crisis and ,"
themirror Thursday, November 26, 2020 12:09:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell warned
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"The Covid crisis is causing immense damage to the public finances, and permanent damage to family finances too, with pay packets on track to be £1,200 a year lower than pre-pandemic expectations,"
yahoo-au Thursday, November 26, 2020 9:07:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell warned
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"The Covid crisis is causing immense damage to the public finances, and permanent damage to family finances too, with pay packets on track to be £1,200 a year lower than pre-pandemic expectations,"
bbc Thursday, November 26, 2020 9:05:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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about British
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"The British state has never seen anything like this outside of World War Two. "
thesun Wednesday, November 25, 2020 9:29:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Support for firms and workers through a difficult winter is welcome, but it is hard to conclude that the messy process of returning economic policy to full lockdown mode via a two-month, five-stage U-turn is anything other than deeply suboptimal,”
nytimes Sunday, November 15, 2020 5:12:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Support for firms and workers through a difficult winter is welcome, but it is hard to conclude that the messy process of returning economic policy to full lockdown mode via a two-month, five-stage U-turn is anything other than deeply suboptimal,”
nytimes Friday, November 6, 2020 1:04:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Support for firms and workers through a difficult winter is welcome, but it is hard to conclude that the messy process of returning economic policy to full lockdown mode via a two-month, five-stage U-turn is anything other than deeply suboptimal,”
nytimes Friday, November 6, 2020 1:04:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“This increase in income from the state, coming at the same time as the decrease in income from the labour market, meant that the overall incomes of the poorest fifth were close to being unchanged in the first phase of this crisis,”
guardian Sunday, October 25, 2020 3:38:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Doing it earlier, given the obvious flaws, would have saved more jobs, but at least we’ve got to the right place 10 days ahead of the Job Support Scheme coming into effect,”
gulf-times Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:44:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Doing it earlier, given the obvious flaws, would have saved more jobs, but at least we’ve got to the right place 10 days ahead of the Job Support Scheme coming into effect,”
alarabiya-en Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:31:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"Doing it earlier, given the obvious flaws, would have saved more jobs, but at least we've got to the right place 10 days ahead of the Job Support Scheme coming into effect,"
4-traders Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:07:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"Doing it earlier, given the obvious flaws, would have saved more jobs, but at least we've got to the right place 10 days ahead of the Job Support Scheme coming into effect,"
thepeninsulaqatar Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:52:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The delay in putting it in place will have come at a high price in jobs lost,"
business-standard Saturday, October 10, 2020 4:19:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The delay in putting it in place will have come at a high price in jobs lost,"
4-traders Friday, October 9, 2020 8:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The delay in putting it in place will have come at a high price in jobs lost,"
news-yahoo Friday, October 9, 2020 8:50:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The delay in putting it in place will have come at a high price in jobs lost,"
4-traders Friday, October 9, 2020 6:12:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The Job Support Scheme will help to stem some of the rise in unemployment this Autumn. "
thesun Friday, September 25, 2020 2:11:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“It is inconceivable the Government can reduce spending significantly in the years ahead. The politics of the first half of this decade will be about how much and which taxes to raise to pay for the lasting effect on the public finances of the Covid crisis,”
telegraph Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:37:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“are a long way from being an answer to the biggest jobs crisis our country has faced in a generation,”
news-yahoo Friday, July 3, 2020 12:51:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Bringing forward some of this spending can play a helpful, but small, role in supporting our economic recovery,”
news-yahoo Friday, July 3, 2020 7:46:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“If unemployment hits 10 per cent, on historical standards it will take seven years to get back to employment before the crisis,” “Because we’ve all lived through record employment for the last five years, we’ve forgotten how slow general history shows unemployment bounce backs are”
cityam Tuesday, June 9, 2020 3:46:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell diz
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“O vírus é perigoso para ricos e pobres, mas o choque econômico que ele produz é muito pior na base da pirâmide”
veja Friday, May 29, 2020 12:34:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“A further extension for the hardest hit sectors, such as pubs and bars, may well be needed beyond October”
heraldscotland Wednesday, May 13, 2020 2:36:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The 6.3 million jobs being furloughed shows in stark terms the scale of the economic shutdown that Britain is living through,"
news-yahoo Tuesday, May 5, 2020 9:59:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The 6.3 million jobs being furloughed shows in stark terms the scale of the economic shutdown that Britain is living through,"
yahoo-au Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12:24:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The 6.3 million jobs being furloughed shows in stark terms the scale of the economic shutdown that Britain is living through,"
news-yahoo Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12:11:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The 6.3 million jobs being furloughed shows in stark terms the scale of the economic shutdown that Britain is living through,"
yahoo-au Monday, May 4, 2020 11:54:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“The cost of the scheme depends on firms’ take-up and the length of time workers need to be furloughed for,”
thenews-pk Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:55:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“The cost of the scheme depends on firms’ take-up and the length of time workers need to be furloughed for,”
wandsworthguardian Wednesday, April 8, 2020 10:48:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“The cost of the scheme depends on firms’ take-up and the length of time workers need to be furloughed for,”
wandsworthguardian Wednesday, April 8, 2020 4:23:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“The cost of the scheme depends on firms’ take-up and the length of time workers need to be furloughed for,”
chesterfirst Wednesday, April 8, 2020 3:52:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“significantly smaller rises in unemployment, and a big rise in public debt. It brings challenges. But policymakers’ job right now is to make uncertainty matter a lot less,”
WashingtonPost Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:36:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"This approach would show the government is committed to doing whatever it takes to support family budgets and cushion the living standards hit from the wider economic shock,"
wsau Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:08:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"This approach would show the government is committed to doing whatever it takes to support family budgets and cushion the living standards hit from the wider economic shock,"
4-traders Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:59:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"In reality, once we take the economic impact of coronavirus into account, this is the weakest official growth outlook on record. And having finally returned to peak pay this year, real wage growth is set to weaken every year of the forecast period"
themirror Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:13:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"In reality, once we take the economic impact of coronavirus into account, this is the weakest official growth outlook on record"
bbc Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:49:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The OBR managed to deliver an incredibly grim, and yet still unbelievably optimistic, pre-pandemic markdown to the UK's economic outlook - dealing a £600 a year hit to every household in Britain. "
themirror Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:28:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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"Our best guess is that 2020 will be very different from the last few years," "We may well see a welcome return to record pay levels, but a less welcome retreat from record employment, with worrying signs including falling vacancies and rising youth unemployment"
nzherald Thursday, January 2, 2020 12:27:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Austerity will end whoever wins this election,”
news-yahoo Monday, November 25, 2019 2:01:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Our objective should be to retain high employment with the wage growth that drives allowing a return to the long term trend of a shorter average working week”
cityam Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:09:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
southwales-eveningpost Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:13:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
stokesentinel Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:30:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
bathchronicle Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:01:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
surreymirror Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:55:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
hulldailymail Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:29:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
icWales Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:22:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
gloucestercitizen Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:09:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
derbytelegraph Tuesday, October 29, 2019 6:58:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell concludes
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"So there's a lot more our politicians can do to help the youth of today - from providing better job or housing security to doing something about climate change. "
cambridge-news Tuesday, October 29, 2019 6:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell wrote
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“And even that average hides the scale of the giveaway to the super-rich,”
independent-UK Tuesday, October 1, 2019 10:31:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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“This year’s income tax cuts are bumper ones for higher earners. If you earn 30,000 you’ll be 73 better off, but make that 327 for those of you on 60,000 over four times as much. Our lowest 40 percent of earners will gain precisely zero,”
iran-daily Sunday, April 7, 2019 1:51:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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about The UK
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“The economic fundamentals are going against the grain of the politics of hours reductions,”
taipeitimes Sunday, March 17, 2019 9:43:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Raising taxes is never easy – raising taxes with the government’s slim parliamentary majority is harder still,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“And the latest stats suggest 73% of the cost in 2016-17 went to just 5,000 claimants, each getting £320,000 on average,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“New modelling shows that lowering the cap back to its original level of £1m of lifetime gains, rather than the current £10m, would conservatively cut the cost roughly in half,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“England, however, is stuck with the most regressive system in Britain,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“Tightening hugely abused agricultural and business property reliefs, which together cost £1.2bn a year, is long overdue,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“This has the ludicrous effect that people will perversely be encouraged to spend all other assets in retirement before touching their pensions,” “This problem isn’t costing huge amounts as yet, which is why it should be closed now – before huge costs from its use, and the directly linked political opposition to scrapping it, build,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“Yes, we want to encourage lower income families to save, but the scale of the current reliefs goes well beyond that, exempting huge amounts of better off individuals’ savings income from tax,” “At a minimum, the government should avoid any further increases in the £20,000 per year tax-free savings limit – and ideally go further with a lower annual or new lifetime cap”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“That’s very generous, very regressive, and a strange incentive not to stagger your retirement income,” “Capping the tax-free lump sum at £40,000 would raise £2bn a year while leaving three-quarters of future pensioners unaffected,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“Raising more tax revenue from wealth is far from easy, but it is not the impossible task that some like to claim it is,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“These allow young people with the means to get up to £1,000 of cash from the government each year, through a kind of reverse means-testing – the support only goes to those lucky enough to already have quite a bit to save,” “While the objectives of elements of these schemes such as encouraging youth home ownership can be desirable, the reality of their operation is absurdly generous and mistargeted – they should be scrapped”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell says
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“Taken together, these arguments mean we need a wider debate about the role of wealth taxes,”
24housing Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell argued
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“How to close that huge gap without causing wider problems is what our limited capacity for anxiety should really prioritise,”
worldfinance Sunday, October 29, 2017 1:07:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"The big picture from yesterday's Budget is that the big squeezes on both the public and family finances have been prolonged well into the 2020s,"
ibtimes-uk Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:20:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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"While the OBR at least delivered some good news on borrowing, the family finances picture has actually deteriorated since the autumn,"
bbc Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:44:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell wrote
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"The effect of a renewed pay squeeze would be broadly felt across the population, but in many ways the worst affected group might be those 'ordinary working families' on lower incomes who will face a double whammy of lower pay growth and benefit cuts,"
startribune Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:59:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 3:58:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 2:09:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:43:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:43:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:06:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:06:00 PM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 3:58:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell added
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"After this small tweak, [just managing families] will still be the big losers over next few years"
themirror Wednesday, November 23, 2016 3:58:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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about British
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“To reduce net migration to the tens of thousands would mean cutting the numbers coming from within the EU by much more than half while simultaneously significantly reducing migration from the rest of the world,” “To achieve that you’d need a very aggressive points-based system and to accept a lot less temporary labour. That would mean losing single market membership, but also accepting the same restrictions on British people working elsewhere”
msn-uk Tuesday, August 16, 2016 2:45:00 AM EAT
Torsten Bell said
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“Brexit is going to push up inflation over the next few years, and that will hit benefit changes even harder,”
msn-uk Sunday, July 17, 2016 4:50:00 PM EAT
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| executive director | 10.00% | EN | 02/09/201709/02/2017 |
| resolution foundation director | 11.00% | EN | 11/23/201623/11/2016 |
| diretor | 2.00% | PT | 07/07/201607/07/2016 |
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| Torsten Bell | EN | 94.23% |
| Torsten Bell | PT | 5.77% |
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| British | 3.55% |
| Boris Johnson | 2.86% |
| Read More | 2.76% |
| Paul Johnson | 2.37% |
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 1.97% |
| Joseph Rowntree | 1.97% |
| Tax Credits | 1.97% |
| Bridget Phillipson | 1.78% |
| Roy Jenkins | 1.78% |
| Sky News | 1.78% |
| Sir | 1.68% |
| Keir Starmer | 1.68% |
| Downing Street | 1.58% |
| The Times | 1.58% |
| Mr Bell | 1.48% |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | 1.38% |
| Mr Johnson | 1.28% |
| Margaret Thatcher | 1.18% |
| John Major | 1.18% |
| Richard Hughes | 1.18% |
| European Union | 1.18% |
| Anneliese Dodds | 1.08% |
| Tory Party | 0.99% |
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| Second World War | 0.99% |
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| Mr Johnson | 0.0104 |
| Read More | 0.0099 |
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