(know that’s not the main point of your tweet, but I think the general point that gov having a record of the checks makes the substance it helping on illegal migration more likely)

It is a different mechanism, but when we paired UC with hmrc data, fraud on earnings outside of self employment reduced to zero.

My (unsurprising!) bet is that this will help much more than you expect, and we should be thinking about regularisation etc

I might be blind here, but I don’t see what is supposed to be the lie here.

Separately, my case is we require checks but have no audit trail of those checks. Doing that helps enforcement. I think this is most obviously clear in right to rent checks when paired with a national landlord database.

sorry - missed this reply in my response. amen to experimenting with rooftop solar if we can!

I guess not even about meeting the target - just we're accelerating towards clean power a long way, and so (I hope!) domestic energy consumption should be less carbon constrained reasonably quickly

We just got an aircon unit for our bedroom - part of why I was comfortable with it was confidence about Lab's clean power plan. It's carbon intensive now, but it won't be soon. Obviously politically, I want energy abundance & clean power to be consistent. Am I kidding myself?

Polls which ask people to have opinions that they previously did not have for a small monetary prize where there is no downside to being wrong probably do more work to persuade policy wonks the public are stupid than any other single thing

@britishprogress.bsky.social @labourtogether.bsky.social

And you can read the full report here: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

Great write up from @oliver_wright here: www.thetimes.com/article/42ff...

Infrastructure boosts growth - but only when it’s built. Lots of this Labour government’s decisions are difficult. A larger economy makes all of these decisions easier.

We could replace most of the report with a post-it note: Parliament is sovereign. MPs saved Scunthorpe steel in 9 hours. If we bring that urgency to building, we can bring down people's costs much quicker.

But we can use the tools in the report to massively ramp up building. New homes means cheaper rent. New grid means cheaper, cleaner bills. New transport means access to better jobs. More runways means cheaper holidays. Labour can fix the cost of living crisis - but only through building.

Always thought there was useful think tank gap in the market for this kind of thing. Centre For Ruinously Tedious Policy Work