Revealed: This is who will be writing the Labour Budget
“I’ll tell you who is going to be writing a Labour Budget – it’s me and Ed Balls,…
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Are the Labour left really prepared to bring down a Miliband Government?
Ed Miliband’s difficulties may only be beginning, rather than ending, on May 8th. Left wing Labour MP John…
Balls pledges Business rate cut for 1.5 million small businesses in first budget
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls will say today that Labour’s first Budget will cut business rates for 1.5 million small…
Labour’s first General Election poster: “Next time, they’ll cut to the bone”
The budget is out of the way, and Labour’s general election campaign is now properly underway. How do…
LabourList Podcast: Budget, Labour’s election offer – and the so-called “debates”
Some of you took the time to listen to our first LabourList podcast – so the team are…
Will the IFS criticise the way Tories measure living standards?
Yesterday during the Budget, George Osborne claimed that living standards are up from 2010 standards. Job done, he…
What do the Tories do now?
Was that it? That was the big game changing moment we had been so afraid (and the Tories…
A message from the North – we can’t afford another 5 years of a Tory Government
Today we saw George Osborne and the Tory-led Government show their last hand before the coming general election.…
Osborne has chosen short term political gimmicks over a long term economic plan at every turn
George Osborne has insisted his pre-election Budget would contain “no gimmicks” – we’ll see. What we can be…
It’s difficult to respond well to a Budget – but that’s what Labour must do today
What happens when George Osborne sits down today will be almost as important as what he says when…
