Weekly Survey: Scottish income tax, Rochester & Strood by-election and Thornberry’s resignation
Former Chancellor and chair of the Better Together campaign Alistair Darling weighed in on matters of fiscal devolution…
Income Tax
Lawson’s tax model is broken – Labour should restore progressive tax
In the run-up to this week’s budget, Lords Lawson and Lamont loudly led a campaign for a significant…
Scottish labour outlines plans for greater devolution on Income Tax and Housing Benefit
Ahead of Scottish Labour conference on Friday – and the independence referendum which takes place in precisely six…
40% of LabourList readers want top rate of tax set higher than 50%
Ten days ago, Ed Balls announced that a Labour government would raise the top rate of tax to…
The week in bits: Polling, Taxes, Boris Johnson and Homophobia
LabourList readers excellent at predicting polls, suggests polls Are LabourList readers the most reliable amateur psephologists in Britain?…
Weekly survey: Party reform – and what should the top rate of tax be?
The past seven days have been big for the Labour Party. Last night Ed Miliband announced his plans…
Osborne refuses to rule out ANOTHER tax cut for the top 1% of earners
The Tories have been happy to attack Labour’s plan to increase the top rate of income tax back…
Balls commits Labour to raising top rate of tax back to 50p
Speaking at Fabian Conference in Central London today, Ed Balls committed the Labour Party to reintroducing the 50p…
Axing the 50p rate is no more than the Tories looking after Tories
The truth about whether to cut the current 50p top rate of tax, is that no one actually…
Why ‘millions versus the millionaires’ isn’t the slogan we need
Sometimes it is hard to remember how distinct and different the instincts and reactions of Labour Party members…
