Rachel Reeves: Wages are £1,500 lower under Cameron’s government
Wages are £1,500 lower on average than they were under Labour, according to Shadow Chief Secretary to the…
Economy
Sometimes loyalty means saying what your leader doesn’t want to hear
So Tom Watson has given an interview to Decca Aitkenhead (who seems to have a remarkable ability to…
Could the German economic model be Ed Miliband’s ‘big idea’?
David Cameron was recently filmed lecturing a group of manufacturing workers with the inimical advice that ‘frankly we…
About that recovery George (The Osborne Effect revisited)
George Osborne departed for the summer holidays evidently feeling rather chirpy about the UK’s economic prospects, and it’s…
Labour should be congratulating Osborne today, not attacking him
Today’s GDP growth of 0.6% (so widely predicted over the weekend it’s hard not to believe it was…
Green prosperity
There have been concerns from some environmentalists that Labour doesn’t ‘get’ the importance of political leadership on climate…
We need a politics for long term economics
Politics – like economics – is cyclical. Parties go in and out of power and priorities change. Democracy…
A new conversation on ‘spending wisely’
Today the Fabian Society publishes the first report of our Commission on Future Spending Choices, a year-long inquiry…
Rebalancing Act
The downturn that followed the 2008 Crash has been the most severe since the Great Depression, and the…
Responses to the CSR
Mark Ferguson: Today’s parliamentary “festivities” started with Ed Miliband trying to strangle the Comprehensive Spending Review at birth,…
