Oh dear | 25 November 2010
Howard Flight has always been an outspoken man. The new Conservative peer is reported to have said: ‘We’re going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it’s jolly expensive. But for those on benefits, there is every incentive. Well, that’s not very sensible.’ He may well be proved correct. But, plain-speaking and politics have never mixed, and especially not now. Following the Lord Young debacle, Downing Street has moved quickly to distance itself from Lord Flight’s comments. A grovelling apology won’t be far away. UPDATE: The IFS did some very interesting work on the rising birthrate (15 percent) among what it termed ‘low income
