Maxwell Marlow

Maxwell Marlow is Director of Policy at the YIMBY Initiative and Director of Public Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute

 

Britain’s state pension is about to blow

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the changes to the Welfare Bill will ‘give people peace of mind’. Perhaps for some, but certainly not economists. Britain’s welfare crisis is staggering – £313 billion a year is spent on disability payments, Universal Credit, winter fuel payments, Motability, child benefit, and, most expensive of them all, the