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A hush settles over Portcullis House. Parliament Square empties of staffers and is refilled with tourists queueing for red phone box selfies. Tumbleweed drifts through the atriums of Westminster tube station. August is the quietest month in…
Rachel Reeves has declared that the latest rise in interest rates will be "incredibly worrying" for already struggling households and argued that the responsibility for the "crisis" lies "at the door of the Conservatives". The Bank of…
Watching Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Ed Miliband and Anas Sarwar outline Labour’s vision for energy and the climate last week, I couldn’t help but feel genuinely excited about the green prosperity plan. Now, admittedly, this is partly…
The big news that year had been that Oasis might get back together for Glastonbury. In the end, whether they would have or not, Covid meant the festival was cancelled. But, for me, the big headliner of 2021 was not who might have been…
Labour has unveiled a five-point plan to "ease the Tory mortgage penalty" amid warnings of an "eye-watering" hit to millions of households' disposable incomes as a result of a surge in mortgage costs. The proposals also come after Labour…
The announcement that Labour will be looking to scale back its £28bn a year 'green prosperity plan' is a political and economic error. Barely a fortnight after her visit to Washington, following a week of headlines about Labour’s bold…
Labour has rowed back on its pledge to invest £28bn a year in the transition to a green economy, with Rachel Reeves announcing that the party in government would instead ramp up investment over time to reach the annual total. The move…
Policies in isolation do not win elections – and they won't win Labour the next one. This has been evident at the ballot box, and it was a major finding from the conversations Renaissance held in 2021 with 60 voters who switched from Labour…
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…
Rachel Reeves will declare that Labour will "rebuild the industrial foundations that we have lost" in a major speech setting out the party's plans to increase Britain's economic resilience and seize the "economic opportunities of the…
It's expected that the Bank of England will raise interest rates today for the 12th time in a row as part of their ongoing push to lower Britain's inflation rate. This means higher mortgage repayments for hundreds of thousands of…
Good morning. Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are out in Medway, Kent today on the final day of campaigning before voters in areas across England head to the polls in this year’s local elections. Labour strategists will likely say the visit…
