News

18th November 2017

Labourlist hosts a debate on Citizen’s Basic Income

On the 14th November the former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna argued against the implementation of a Citizen’s Basic Income during a speech to the German British Forum. Click here to read Read More

7th November 2017

November 2017 update

To read the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust’s November update, click here.

31st October 2017

A new Guardian article about the Finland experiment

Aditya Chakrabortty has written an article in The Guardian: ‘A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work’. To read the article, click here.

21st October 2017

Citizen’s Basic Income: A Christian social policy

A discussion with Malcolm Torry about his book Citizen’s Basic Income: A Christian Policy has been published on the Basic Income Podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here You Read More

16th October 2017

Ronnie Cowan MP asks the Chancellor of the Exchequer to fund UK Citizen’s Basic Income pilots

Ronnie Cowan MP (SNP) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond MP, to urge the UK Government to follow the lead of the Scottish Government, and to announce funding Read More

15th October 2017

Half of UK adults would support universal basic income in principle

– but support drops if it means benefits are cut or taxes rise Nearly half of all adults aged 18-75 in the UK (49%) would support the UK Government introducing Read More