'House of the People' Citizens' Assembly Provides Alternative to UK's Far-Right Descent'

'House of the People' Citizens' Assembly Provides Alternative to UK's Far-Right Descent'

The first sitting of the House of the People, a citizens’ assembly initiative by the group Assemble has recommended a “People’s Charter” of citizen-led policy proposals. These include a wealth tax, strengthening anticorruption laws to prohibit lobbying, an immediate arms embargo for all countries acting in violation of international law, the “long term decommodification of housing”, and the creation of a Future Generations Act to ensure that Gov…