Disraeli Room

...One driver, which could help to promote Community Budgets, is the emergence of “Community Champions”. This will need to be somebody from the local community with the profile, urgency, drive and commitment to effect change. This could, for example, be a community leader, local celebrity or elected politician. This could also be a “group” initiative with local businesses or charities joining with communities to create momentum...

On 21 March George Osborne delivered his third budget. The responses to the budget have been mixed, with business leaders praising the introduction of a ‘patent box’ and the cuts to corporate tax, the banks condemning the increase in the bank levy and the opposition calling it the ‘millionaire’s budget’. The ResPublica team have collated a round-up of the key reactions to the Chancellor statement...

...We all need to move on from the comforts of the past and, to coin a phrase from a current active campaign, “move our money” away from this obsession with what you can get and consume and towards a world where money is about what you can “do”...