speech Liz Kendall full speech: ‘How we’ll get Britain working again, and follow in the footsteps of Attlee, Wilson and Blair’ This is a copy of Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ Liz Kendall’s speech as written… Liz Kendall 4th March, 2024, 11:53 am
Columnist Budget 2024: ‘The Tories want to play politics while services crumble’ Yesterday the Chancellor engaged in the usual pre-budget charade of touring the Sunday studios trying to drum up… George Dibb 4th March, 2024, 9:58 am
Columnist ‘A non-dom Budget would show Labour can tax without hitting most workers’ Expectation management is starting to ramp up ahead of next week’s budget and the messages coming out of… George Dibb 29th February, 2024, 2:00 pm
Comment ‘Labour’s £28bn green plan was a potential liability. It is right to drop it’ Where the rest of Labour’s platform has been resolutely cautious and incremental, saving most of our fiscal and… Matthew Oulton 8th February, 2024, 9:44 am
Comment ‘Starmer should leave fake tax cut promises to the Tories’ In all the conversations I’ve had in focus groups about the cost-of-living crisis, not once (I think) has… Ed Dorrell 4th January, 2024, 3:08 pm
Columnist ‘Labour will turn Tory economics on its head, even within its fiscal rules’ At last month’s Global Investment Summit, held in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace, Rishi Sunak, sat alongside… George Dibb 19th December, 2023, 8:30 am
Comment ‘Revealed: Voters trust Labour over the Tories to run every great office of state’ Cabinet reshuffles are delicate operations. Too much continuity defeats the purpose, but too drastic a change can signal… Matthew Price 13th December, 2023, 8:30 am
Analysis ‘We’re drowning here’: Nottingham, the latest Labour council facing the abyss Another week, another reminder of the grim local government legacy Labour may inherit as another council issues a… Tom Belger 30th November, 2023, 11:40 am
Comment ‘Hunt has stolen Labour’s welfare reform plans. Here’s how it regains the agenda’ “People who can work, should work… 2.6 million people are out of work due to long-term sickness. A… Josh Nicholson 23rd November, 2023, 3:54 pm
Comment Autumn Statement 2023: The three spending traps now awaiting Labour The economics of this Autumn Statement do not add up. The Chancellor has all but undone a year’s… Charlotte Alldritt 23rd November, 2023, 10:19 am