Stephen Boyd
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Director IPPR Scotland. Views my own.
Maryhill, Glasgow
Joined February 2011
🎉10th ANNIVERSARY🎉 A decade ago, IPPR Scotland was established in a big moment of change to support progressive policymaking. 📢Now, as Scotland faces fresh challenges, we’re hosting a major conference to ask: What next? 🗓️Save the date: 29 Oct 2025 https://t.co/7wRLZpUVYG
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Ten years ago, in the wake of the Scottish Independence referendum, there emerged a clear need for a think tank to support progressive policymaking and dee
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The @scotgov projects that mitigating the two-child limit in Scotland would lift 15,000 children out of child poverty. However that leaves 225,000 children still in poverty. @GOVUK must abolish the two-child limit as a starting point, but a far bolder action plan is needed.
“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM @GordonBrown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston
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⚠️The CCC today published expert advice on how @scotgov can tackle the climate crisis. 📺 @DaveHawkey spoke to @LauraRPiper of @STVNews to elucidate further: "What we really need now is a policy package that can step up to deliver [the simple things recommended by the CCC]."
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⚠️It is time to focus on adopting “climate missions”: coherent plans to coordinate change that everyone eventually will be a part of. Our full statement on the Climate Change Committee's advice published today⤵️ @davehawkey_
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Tom Hunter believes Singapore provides a useful template for Scotland's economy. Is he right? Um, no... https://t.co/SBPJlCozG1
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What does “radical” look like? Well, according to a new report published by Sir Tom’s eponymous Hunter Foundation, Scotland should learn from Singapore by
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(Of course ownership structures and systems of corporate governance are very different in Denmark: 100% of Novo Nordisk's A class shares are foundation owned, allowing the firm to patiently invest for the long term. Would be nice to hear Sir Tom talk about this stuff...)
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5 why focus on 'low tax' Singapore at all? For instance, Denmark has higher labour productivity, much higher business investments and performs very well across indices of innovation. It's home to highly successful global firms such as Novo Nordisk, Maersk, Lego and Calsberg
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4 Singapore's democracy is less than perfect. The PAP has been in govt since '59, helped by gerrymandering and the ability of PAP ministers to determine whether media content is false. Hardly surprising that the planning process - always bumpy in an active democracy - is smoother
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3 Sir Tom compares the top rates of income tax (24% vs Scotland's 'staggering' 48%) but makes no reference to Singapore's Central Provident Fund to which employees and employers contribute 20% and 17% respectively up to a ceiling of 7,400 SGD
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...and, Temasek, the state owned investment company owns majority/significant stakes in a range of large domestic firms as well as its foreign holdings.
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2 Sir Tom's account of the factors explaining Singapore's rapid development is - let's be generous - partial and incomplete. For instance, the state is hugely active: 80% of housing is publicly owned...
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1 Comparing countries to Singapore (or HK) is a bit silly. As Joe Studwell argues in his peerless How Asia Works, these 'port-offshore financial centres' are 'not normal states'
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đź“şGreat to have our child poverty analysis feature on @itvpeston! @AnushkaAsthana @Peston đź“ş đź‘€@JohnSwinney asked why the Scottish government is miles away from hitting its own child poverty target. We are clear child poverty is not inevitable. #ChildPoverty #Scotland
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Wrote a short piece for today's @Daily_Record looking back at a week dominated by the Spring Statement and publication of the latest child poverty statistics https://t.co/UjtfOPT7Wb
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Writing for the Record, Stephen Boyd of IPPR Scotland urges Rachel Reeves to consider alternative means to raise badly needed revenues for public services.
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IPPR Scotland responds to Scottish government’s child poverty statistics | IPPR
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Child poverty stats for 23/24 out this morning confirm: - Scottish Government has missed its interim target by a distance - child poverty in Scotland (22%) significantly lower than UK (31%) as a result of devolved policies @IPPRScotland reaction below
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Today @IPPRScotland publishes new analysis showing that by 2030 child poverty in Scotland will be: - well below the rest of the UK due to devolved policies - more than twice as high as the Scottish Government's current target https://t.co/lJ7hPYH0Cu
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While 2023 will be the first year we see the full impact of the 'game changing' Scottish Child Payment, there is widespread pessimism that the target will
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Important reading from @IPPRScotland ahead of Scotland’s child poverty statistics being published later this week 👇🏻
Today @IPPRScotland publishes new analysis showing that by 2030 child poverty in Scotland will be: - well below the rest of the UK due to devolved policies - more than twice as high as the Scottish Government's current target https://t.co/lJ7hPYH0Cu
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Today @IPPRScotland publishes new analysis showing that by 2030 child poverty in Scotland will be: - well below the rest of the UK due to devolved policies - more than twice as high as the Scottish Government's current target https://t.co/lJ7hPYH0Cu
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While 2023 will be the first year we see the full impact of the 'game changing' Scottish Child Payment, there is widespread pessimism that the target will
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Would a wealth tax help alleviate financial pressures in Scotland? “There are no compelling reasons to believe a wealth tax cannot be reconciled with a strong and growing economy," @stephenboydecon tells David Bol and @AlexofBrown. For @TheScotsman
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A Labour MP will table a bid at next month’s Scottish conference for the party to adopt a wealth tax policy
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