‘The Budget ends austerity. But without reform, voters will ask where cash went’
She did it. Despite apparently being boxed into a corner, the Chancellor has managed to find a staggering…
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Budget 2024: ‘How Rachel Reeves will turn the page on the Tories’ economic illiteracy’
As Rachel Reeves delivers the first Labour Budget in nearly fifteen years today, she will demonstrate what Labour…
Budget bus fare row: ‘The £2 cap was a rare policy that dramatically improves lives – it’s so cheap people talk about it’
Keir Starmer is missing the point of the £2 bus fare. He’s failing to recognise that investment in…
‘How Labour councils can help Starmer and Reeves deliver their growth mission’
Economic growth is at the heart of our new government’s agenda, and rightly so. For too long we…
Sam White: ‘Budget 2024 leaves Reeves facing nine circles of fiscal hell’
In the ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante tells the story of the hero being led through the Nine Circles of…
‘Why legalising assisted dying would create a “two-tier” system in our NHS’
As the Second Reading of my colleague Kim Leadbeater MP’s Private Members’ Bill on assisted dying approaches, I…
‘Wealth inequality threatens all of us – what can Labour do about it in the Budget?’
Periods of egalitarianism are the exception and not the rule in British history. Throughout its long and storied…
Budget 2024: ‘Reeves has the nation’s morale in her hands, not just its finances’
Economists will say it’s illogical. They will point to inflation falling and salaries now climbing faster than prices…
Budget 2024: ‘No fiscal rule is perfect. But this one means welcome investment’
Speaking yesterday at the IMF in Washington, Rachel Reeves finally confirmed the rumour that has been circulating in…
‘Trump’s Labour row is faux outrage. It won’t hurt UK-US relations if he wins’
I’m not usually inclined to be too positive about the Trump Presidential election campaign. But I can only…
