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With nearly three million unemployed and rising, Labour needs an answer on the economy. The temptation will be to draw up a single national plan covering the whole country. It’s a temptation we must resist. National economic plans have been…
As Britain’s health service staggers towards the fearsome - or at least flu-ridden - British winter, a pernicious idea is quickly becoming a consensus view: The NHS is a bottomless pit. The logic is deceptively simple. Between 2010 and…
Labour members woke to difficult news this morning as early results from local elections streamed in. Overnight counting in Wales, west of England, and a handful of large counties showed a drop in support. Good Labour administrations lost…
George W Bush once said: “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” As finance cabinet member for an outer London borough, I fully sympathise with this view. Sometimes, however, budgets have so many numbers in them, we forget…
