Aveek Bhattacharya

‘Get in a row with farmers’ was probably not high on the government’s ideal November to-do list.

Rachel Reeves is going to face the mother of all juggling acts when she comes to deliver her first Budget later this month. First and foremost, the Chancellor’s going to have to raise a lot of money – perhaps £40 billion - in order to meet…

“Securonomics”, “the everyday economy”, “productivism” – there is no shortage of buzzwords floating around to describe Labour’s economic worldview.

In theory, one of the most attractive features of devolution is that it allows parts of the country to learn from others, creating what US Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis famously called “laboratories of democracy”. Yet 25 years since…

Labour, it is fair to say, is pretty reluctant to attach its name to new taxes. The reasons are obvious enough. The party wants to ditch its reputation for tax and spend in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis and it also wants to position…

Jeremy Hunt has set out a raft of new measures in his autumn statement today, in a bid to start framing key new narratives on Tory-Labour divides in the run-up to the next election. We've asked some of our regular columnists (including new…

The draft National Policy Forum documents published by LabourList in May contained a pledge by the party to “ensure animals are treated with respect”. Yet the only policies it mentioned that might contribute to that objective were closing…