Starmer is pledging “growth, growth, growth”, but how will Labour deliver?
Keir Starmer is delivering a big speech in Liverpool this morning. The gist is that Labour will “fight…
economic policy
Starmer: Rebooting economy will be next Labour government’s “defining task”
Keir Starmer will say that his party will “fight the next election on economic growth” as he declares…
Reeves to set out plan to “reboot” economy amid “Tory tombola of tax cuts”
Rachel Reeves will set out Labour’s plan to “reboot our economy” while arguing that “any lingering sense that…
Starmer will set out the battleground for an election amid frantic Tory infighting
Keir Starmer had a very good week. After Boris Johnson announced that he would be stepping down last Wednesday, the…
The Conservatives should back a real windfall tax on oil and gas giants
Away from the Westminster drama over which Tory MP will replace Boris Johnson, the cost-of-living emergency faced by…
The Conservatives are overseeing a criminal waste of Britain’s potential
It’s time to debunk Boris Johnson’s big jobs lie. Keen observers will have noticed that, whenever he is…
We desperately need an alternative to the orthodox economic consensus
As we emerge from the end of the pandemic – to the extent that there will ever be an…
We need a post-pandemic recalibration of the economic thinking of progressives
On Thursday last week, our supposedly Thatcherite Chancellor the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, slaughtered yet another sacred cow of…
Rachel Reeves on Rishi Sunak’s windfall tax U-turn: “We lead, they follow”
Below is the text of the speech delivered by Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves in response to the government’s…
Greater defence spending is the wrong priority, morally and strategically
Every working-class person in this country knows that Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement was a failure. It did nothing…
