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David Willetts

March 2024

  • Composite of some of the Garrick Club’s members.

    The Garrick Club’s notable members – in pictures

    The Garrick Club is likely to hold a vote this year on changing its rules to allow female members. A Guardian investigation into those who will help decide the issue reveals a host of people in public life among its members

July 2023

  • Turbulent times … young unemployed demonstrators in November 1981.

    ‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

    Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

November 2022

  • Polly Toynbee

    Call these voter ID laws what they really are: voter suppression and an attack on young people

    Polly Toynbee
    Older people lean Conservative – no wonder the government wants to keep younger ones away from ballot boxes, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

October 2021

  • The report says demographic increase alone would see about 40,000 more students entering higher education each year until 2035.

    Early 2000s baby boom will soon flood universities, warns former Tory minister

    Expansion in education must be funded to avert young people getting stuck in low-paid work, says David Willetts

September 2021

  • University graduate

    Architect of £9,000 tuition fees calls for faster loan repayments

    David Willetts says taxpayers footing too much of the bill for university students’ unpaid loans

April 2021

  • David Cameron (left) and George Osborne make a speech during the Brexit referendum in 2016.

    Role call: the former ministers who found private sector jobs

    The Greensill affair shows how some of David Cameron’s appointees have been among the most enthusiastic corporate jobseekers. Here’s the list...

October 2020

  • A demonstration against unemployment in Cardiff in 1982. The RF researchers said unemployment among 18- to 29-year-olds could hit 17% by late 2020, the same level as 1984 under Margaret Thatcher’s government.

    Covid generation: UK youth unemployment 'set to triple to 80s levels'

    Resolution Foundation report warns young people could be lost to long periods out of work

November 2019

  • Lord Willetts

    Lord Willetts accused of pitching 'young against old' in book

    Second edition of The Pinch accused of blaming baby boomers rather than government policies for inequalities

January 2019

  • Universities are sounding the alarm about their finances, with competition for students increasing.

    University fees cut would hurt mobility and aid rich, PM told

    Justine Greening, David Willetts and Jo Johnson warn against reducing top £9,250 course costs

May 2018

  • Waterfront apartments on Langtons Wharf in Leeds.

    Radical ideas for rebalancing Britain's baby boomers and millennials

  • A protest against Theresa May’s ‘dementia tax’ proposals during the 2017 general election campaign.

    The Guardian view on generational inequality: it’s time for a new deal

March 2018

  • Students protest in central London against an increase in university tuition fees. The sign reads 'think of the children'

    Brief letters
    David Willetts’ generational moan is a bit rich

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Are we really going to let the super-rich take all the art?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Shadow Education Secretary Willets listens on second day of the annual Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth<br>Shadow Education Secretary David Willets listens on the second day of the annual Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth, southern England October 2, 2006. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico (BRITAIN)

    Target wealthy baby boomers, says Tory peer

  • Richard Partington

    Economics viewpoint
    Has the time come for a wealth tax in the UK?

    Richard Partington

October 2017

  • A lone Union flag flying alongside EU flags outside the European commission HQ in Brussels ahead of Theresa May’s visit tonight.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs severely criticise DWP for withholding information on 'very bad' universal credit - Politics live

    Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen

August 2017

  • Students react after collecting their A-level results at St Anne’s Catholic High School for Girls in north London.

    The Guardian view on A-levels: another misdirected reform

    Editorial: Michael Gove wanted to make exams more rigorous. He should have concentrated on widening opportunity for all school leavers

May 2017

  • Students and academics demonstrate against tuition fees and cuts in central London in November, 2016

    An act that Labour must repeal to save higher education

    Letters: Tuition fees have been a disaster for students and higher education institutions alike, according to a group of academics

April 2017

  • A house sold sign on a period home in Brunswick Terrace, Hove, East Sussex

    The Guardian view on generational inequality: a country fit for all ages

    Editorial: In 2010, David Willetts illuminated the equality divide between young and old. Since then things have only got worse

October 2016

  • Theresa May outside 10 Downing Street

    Theresa May’s ‘just managing’ families set to be worse off

    Study shows many of UK’s poorest families will see significant drop in income in post-Brexit economy
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