Kirsty Innes (@kmei_) 's Twitter Profile
Kirsty Innes

@kmei_

Director, Tech Policy @LabourTogether. Advisor @BritishProgress Formerly @InstituteGC, @HMTreasury, @UKinFrance. She/her. @kmeinnes in the other place

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linkhttps://labourtogether.uk calendar_today20-12-2010 11:56:41

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Kirsty Innes (@kmei_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

✈️🇬🇧We've spent DECADES talking about Heathrow expansion. We know we need to do it. So let's get it done. Labour Together and Centre for British Progress explain how we could deliver the big infra we need far faster in a new report with a foreword by Dan Tomlinson MP: labourtogether.uk/all-reports/ge…

David Lawrence (@dc_lawrence) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Important thread on the economic impact of a new runway at Heathrow. The average family will save £160 on their holiday 🤯

Kirsty Innes (@kmei_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

French politicians suggest the UK should do more to tackle illegal working, maybe by introducing an ID card. If only someone would come up with a workable, affordable, popular proposal for one. Oh, wait... labourtogether.uk/all-reports/br…

Ewan Gibbs (@ewangibbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A large portion of people in Britain think that they should be able to pass on huge unearned wealth accrued through surging property prices without paying any tax on it. It's a massive problem for a society where property ownership has become the defining feature of wealth.

BBC Newsnight (@bbcnewsnight) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“It's absolutely obvious to me that people should have a digital identity... Let's stop shouting at the French. A lot of this is on us.” Ex-MI6 boss, Sir Alex Younger, backs calls for digital ID cards and adds that they could help deter small boat crossings. #Newsnight

Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The weird shadow of the mid-2000s debate on ID cards never ceases to amaze. With the need for reliable digital identification and the need to clamp down on the informal labour market, the case has never been stronger.

Mike Bird (@birdyword) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OK a compromise: all homes have AC, BUT it can be turned on and off, perhaps even adjusted to be hotter or colder by gradient