Gareth Thomas: Taxpayers saved RBS – so let’s return it to us as a People’s Bank
Philip Hammond should use his upcoming Budget to announce the long-term future of Fred Goodwin’s former employer, the…
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Kevan Jones: Fallon’s confusion over Navy boats shows Treasury takeover of MoD
After two years of delay the defence secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, yesterday finally announced the government’s national shipbuilding…
Seema Malhotra: It is more complicated than class and Brexit – Labour needs a one nation consensus to win again
Despite the many reasons to be positive at our election result, our “path to power” relies on our addressing the…
Margaret Greenwood: The Tories’ budget failed to help families and make work pay
The farce of the government’s u-turn on the national insurance hike for the self-employed has grabbed the headlines,…
John McDonnell: Hammond backed down – now the super-rich and the giant corporations must be targeted for tax
Phillip Hammond’s u-turn on the £2bn national insurance contributions (NICs) hike for the self-employed will be a relief to…
McDonnell: Budget u-turn shows Corbyn’s Labour winning the argument on austerity
Philip Hammond’s humiliating Budget u-turn shows Jeremy Corbyn is pushing back the government against the tide of Tory austerity,…
Tories fined £70,000 over “numerous failures” in election expenses
The Tories have been fined £70,000 after a damning investigation confirmed they broke rules on election expenses. Today…
Hammond’s humiliation over national insurance proves the Tories are out of touch, writes a self-employed worker
I have been arguing for long time that Labour should consider itself to be playing at home when…
John McDonnell: Budget u-turn has shredded the chancellor’s authority
This is the full statement published by shadow chancellor John McDonnell after Philip Hammond scrapped the £2bn rise in…
Christian Wolmar: Labour, taking control of the trains and why Hammond’s hostility to anything but cars is all too clear
Philip Hammond’s knowledge of transport was well summed up at my first meeting with him soon after he…
