This letter sees historic levels of political support for a basic income, with peers, mayors, councillors and members of every parliament and assembly in the UK endorsing basic income pilots across all four nations, including Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Caroline Lucas, Tracy Brabin, Clive Lewis, Christine Jardine, Ronnie Cowan and John McDonnell. These politicians are joined by trade union leaders, psychologists, community leaders, organisers, theatre directors, political whistleblowers and civil society leaders in calling for this policy.
ADD YOUR NAMECan you start your own Basic Income Conversation? We've created a Conversation Toolkit to guide you through the process. We're supporting thousands of Conversations about basic income in living rooms and boardrooms across the country. Get involved by downloading the Toolkit and start a Conversation today!
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Basic income has the potential to impact all aspects of life in the UK. We're supporting organisations in various sector to explore how basic income affects different social issues.
Is there a Basic Income Conversation you want to start?
Research is crucial to designing the right basic income for the UK. We support an interdisciplinary Research Network to encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration. The Research Network hosts regular, public seminars. Are you a researcher working on basic income?
Whether it's a full national roll out of basic income or pilots to test the idea, we need politicians to show leadership and sign basic income into legislation. For a change of this magnitude, it's going to take cross-party support. That's what we're building, can you help us?
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