No more Earned Income Credit, no Minimum Alternative Tax, Child Tax Credit, Marriage Tax Penalty, Employer Plan Covered restrictions, and other pointless regulations that make the system a complete mess.

FORBES: Guest Post: Tax Reform

Moreover, new kinds of welfare benefit and financial reward such as the Working Families Tax Credit and the Minimum Wage are improving the incentives to entering the labour market and are making the poorest employees better off.

BBC: Unit 4: Political issues

The statistics do not reflect the impact of more recent policies such as the national minimum wage and the working families tax credit, however and the reseachers say it is too early to judge Labour's overall strategy.

BBC: Poverty report challenges Blair