Labour must be the party of national recovery
“Decency. Principle. Values.” Can Labour’s election campaign recover from the damaging revelations about the ideas which sustain Ed…
Economy
5 things we learned from Ed Miliband’s debate notes
Ed Miliband’s debate notes were left in a room in Salford after the TV debate on Thursday night.…
Vote Labour to end “Tory austerity”, says Balls
Today Ed Balls will speak in Glasgow, in which he’ll says Labour’s first Budget would “end Tory austerity…
John McDonnell says Labour backbenchers would force Miliband to abandon austerity
John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington, has warned that if Labour are the largest party in May,…
It’s time to end the lie that Labour and Tories are ‘the same’ on austerity
It is a claim so ubiquitous that most people repeat it without even having to explain it: ‘there’s…
Ask the Chancellors: a boring sign of things to come
I am not one of those who claims this is a boring election. While the current Labour Party…
George Osborne has shown Labour that they don’t need to make cuts and slash the deficit
Labour has been hamstrung by George Osborne. The general election seems to be a choice between Tory cuts…
Labour will review the impact of the Coalition’s squeeze of local communities
By Andy Sawford MP and Stephen Timms MP Five years ago the Conservative Party were keen to brandish their…
Forget Osborne’s tactics, this budget has nothing to say about growth
How does the budget look from the industrial estates of England? Those forgotten lands of low ugly sheds…
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…
