James Heywood: A GBP20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

James Heywood: A GBP20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

James Heywood is the Head of Welfare and Opportunity at the Centre for Policy Studies. One of the iron laws of politics is that it is very easy to give things away and extremely difficult to take them back again. That can prove a particular problem when a government has had to put in place…