Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose has welcomed Government moves to increase pupil funding across North Somerset schools which return back from their summer holidays today, but has warned that they have to do “a lot more until our children get a fair deal”… John Penrose has been calling for the Government…
Read MoreMost of us will never need very much care. Or, if we do, we’ll be looked after by our families rather than by the local Council. So, for most of us, the hysteria about a ‘dementia tax’ (it’s a great press headline, but not very realistic) is rather silly, because…
Read MoreI’ve been a big supporter of the ‘triple-lock’. It was designed to lift pensioners out of poverty by increasing the state pension faster than everyone else’s earnings, at the rate of working wages, or price rises, or 2.5% (whichever was highest). And it’s worked brilliantly; pensioner poverty is miles lower…
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