Compass thinktank urges Burnham to adopt wealth tax and free social care

As Britain's new government prepares its first autumn budget, a coalition of left-leaning thinkers has offered Andy Burnham a sweeping blueprint for dismantling four decades of neoliberal economic order. The Compass thinktank's seventy proposals — spanning wealth taxation, free social care, public energy ownership, and democratic reform — arrive not as ideology alone, but as a reckoning with what structural inequality costs a society over time. The report's deeper argument is an old one dressed in urgent new clothes: that the distance between political promise and political will is precisely w