It’s not growth that wins elections, it’s being on the side of ordinary people
Perhaps the most misunderstood insight in the history of politics was chalked on the wall of Bill Clinton’s…
Cost of living
Weekly survey: Cost of living, elections and devolution
Average wages are set to rise faster than prices – so is there still a cost of living…
The government are trying to tell you that you’re not squeezed. They’re wrong
Have you heard? You’re not squeezed anymore. That’s right! After four years of prices rising faster than wages,…
Tackling rip-off cash machines
As if being in poverty wasn’t bad enough, being charged for being in poverty adds insult to injury. …
Miliband’s focus on ‘cost-of-living’ is more radical and broader than most realise
At an event on changing attitudes to poverty recently, a colleague remarked that the Labour Party had almost…
Ed Balls: Labour will deliver a surplus in government, and cut the national debt
In a keynote speech to the Fabian Society conference, Ed Balls will announce that Labour is committed to balancing…
Does Osborne want to be right more than he wants to win?
Sheer bafflement was the only reasonable reaction, upon reading today that the Tories have decided to fight back…
5 things that Labour must get right in 2014
By Marcus Roberts and Mark Ferguson The year might be a week old, and MPS may have been…
David Cameron’s cost-of-Christmas crisis
At the Downing Street Christmas party this year, David Cameron and George Osborne will no doubt be cracking…
2.5 million people in Britain will be forced into debt just to keep their homes warm over Christmas
No Christmas is ever stress free. There are cards to write, presents to buy, decorations to put up,…
