Rail, energy and Royal Mail nationalisation at heart of Corbyn’s leaked plan to transform Britain
Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to renationalise the railways, energy market and Royal Mail if he is elected prime…
Income
Bill Esterson: Families, young people and small firms need help – otherwise all the Tory talk about “strugglers” is just hot air
We face a chronic shortage of homes to rent. According to this week’s report from the Royal Institute of…
Labour becomes party with largest income after £50m boost last year
Labour was the most profitable British political party last year, taking in over £50 million. The party took £51,153,000 in…
Labour hails Tory u-turn on child poverty trickery
Labour have claimed victory after forcing Iain Duncan Smith into a climbdown on the way child poverty is monitored.…
Why do the Tories claim income is not an indicator of child poverty?
Seventy years ago, the National Insurance Act was placed on the statute book. It is the foundation-stone of…
Incomes on the rise, but not yet back to levels when Labour left office
Incomes have returned to pre-recession levels, according to new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), but…
Why we still need tax credits (as well as pre-distribution)
Would you be surprised if I wrote a blog piece supporting the speech on social security made by…
Livingstone campaign calls for “full household income disclosure”
Following last night’s Newsnight debate, Ken Livingstone’s campaign has argued that that “full disclosure” on an agreed basis…
