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Across the advanced economy nations, centre-left parties are governing in hard times. The Mile End Institute’s recent conference sought to assess the constraints that a prospective Labour government is likely to face in office, alongside…
Margaret and Siobhain McDonagh’s parents were part of the great wave of postwar Irish immigration to the UK. Like so many others who came to work on building sites, in the NHS and countless other jobs, they came to start a new life in a…
Labour’s sister party in Australia delivered its budget earlier this month, its first since returning to power after an election win in 2022. The measures focused on the cost-of-living crisis and boosting Medicare, but hidden in the text…
The 'take back control' bill is the product of Labour strategists seeking to add political heft to the constitutional reforms proposed by Gordon Brown last month. Few can argue that the slogan is one of the most successful within recent…
Lindsay Hoyle has criticised Labour's plans to replace the House of Lords with an elected body and warned that they would result in an "arm wrestle" for supremacy between the Commons and the second chamber. In an LBC Radio interview, Hoyle…
Gordon Brown’s report on the future of the UK constitution has been attacked as a distraction. Labour, it is argued, should focus on more immediate matters, such as the cost-of-living crisis and growing backlogs in the NHS. This was the…
The UK is in the grips of seemingly never ending crises. For far too long, people have been told to ‘weather the storm’ with the government offering no lasting solutions. Following Human Rights Day on December 10th, there is little to…
Lisa Nandy has described the House of Lords as "unelected and unaccountable to the public" and argued that having such an upper chamber in a democracy is simply "not acceptable". In a Times Radio interview this morning, ahead of the…
Keir Starmer will unveil a report on constitutional reform this morning. Commissioned in 2020 and led by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the long-awaited document sets out what the Labour leader described today as “the biggest transfer…
Hot on the heels of Keir Starmer's speech to the CBI conference in Birmingham, Rachel Reeves will today address the Great Northern Conference in Manchester – an annual event that focuses on how to grow the North of England's economy. The…
The UK economy shrank in the last quarter, official figures show. GDP shrank by 0.2% between July and September after growing by 0.2% in the previous three months. An economy is considered to be in recession only after it contracts for two…
Kwasi Kwarteng has just delivered his definitely-not-a-Budget statement. The Chancellor confirmed this morning that the energy price cap freeze will be paid for by borrowing – rather than taking the funds from the unexpected, excess profits…
