Rachel Reeves interview: ‘There’s more to economic policy than tax and spend’
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has argued that there is “more to economic policy than tax and spend”, using…
Growth
Watch and read Rachel Reeves speech savaging “Rishi’s recession” as UK economy falters
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves held a press conference this morning on the state of the UK economy, upping…
‘Why Labour should not roll back plans to close the private equity tax loophole’
This weekend the Financial Times reported that senior Labour figures had discussed rolling back one of its remaining…
Keir Starmer economy speech today: Watch here and 4 things we learned
Keir Starmer is fleshing out what to expect from a Labour government’s economic policy in a speech at…
‘High interest rates and strict fiscal rules box Labour in – but it still has options’
Labour is going to face a potentially existential problem if – as seems very likely – it is…
PMQs: Starmer makes a bid to appeal to voters with pop culture references
In a week where the government published the potentially illegal Northern Ireland protocol bill and faced the embarrassment…
Chuka Umunna: Brexit squeeze is leaving people poorer and starving our public services of the cash they need
The chancellor wants us to believe that this Budget will make Britain fit for the future. But no…
John Mills: Don’t believe the myth that Labour “crashed the car” – and how we can fire up growth to fund our NHS
Earlier this month government’s independent economic forecaster admitted it would need to “significantly” lower its estimates for the…
The boom years model of growth was morally and practically bankrupt
In a context in which we have been long told that “we are all in it together”, to ask…
Alison McGovern: We need to stop Tories capitulating to the hard-right over Brexit
Naturally I couldn’t help but enjoy watching the Tories running scared at their conference last week. They looked…
