Ed Miliband on £28bn rowback claim: ‘Don’t believe everything you read’
With the Tories doubling down on anti-green attacks, Ed Miliband gave Labour’s ‘green jobs and lower bills’ messaging…
Devolution
Andy Burnham floats overhauling inheritance tax and a basic income
Andy Burnham has said “there is an argument for a basic income” and proposed overhauling inheritance tax to…
‘The Treasury takes 95p in each £1 of tax. Labour should devolve real tax powers’
At conference the other week, Labour set out practical ways the party would improve people’s lives in government.…
The Fabian Society’s 11 big policy ideas for a Labour government
Think tanks are not political parties. Most of the time we examine policy problems one by one. It…
‘Keir’s speech made it clear. Reform must be at the centre of all Labour does’
As Keir outlined his project for our country today, it was made clear that reform will play a…
‘Ministers like control, but Labour must offer radical, irreversible devolution’
Labour has promised a ‘Take Back Control Bill’ in the first King’s Speech. Aimed at England, it must…
‘To succeed, Labour’s devolution agenda must be seen as a constitutional project’
Keir Starmer has committed a future Labour government to undertaking a “huge shift of power and control out…
‘Welsh Labour has voted to devolve its rulebook. Here’s why that’s a good thing’
At this year’s Welsh Labour conference, delegates overwhelmingly voted to devolve the Labour rule book. This would make…
‘Why and how Labour should embrace a “new levelling up” agenda’
Labour has carefully avoided mentioning ‘levelling up’ in the five missions Sir Keir Starmer has outlined this year.…
‘Labour must not throw the net-zero baby out with the ULEZ bathwater’
Whilst the dust settles on the by-election results in Selby and Ainsty, Somerton and Frome and Uxbridge and…
