Radical ideas for rebalancing Britain’s baby boomers and millennials
The Resolution Foundation is not short of ambition. It believes its new report, A New Generational Contract, can reframe the political debate, shifting it away from free-market, small state concerns towards the new anxieties of voters.
The report underlines how funding for the NHS has become a priority for every generation of voters, while even the older, affluent middle classes are worried that their children will never be able to buy a home.
David Willetts, the former Conservative cabinet minister who chaired the Intergenerational Commission, and Torsten Bell, who was an adviser to Ed Miliband and directed the research for the report, both believe successive governments failed for too long to see how the balance had tilted against millennials – that politicians, like generals, are always fighting the last war.
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