Comment Budget 2024: ‘Labour must hold firm in opposing rumoured inheritance tax cut’ The spring budget is fast approaching, and tax cuts are running around the chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s mind. After… Dan Goss 5th March, 2024, 7:00 am
News Budget 2024: Reeves outpolls Hunt as Tories face worst poll on record A new poll by Ipsos has found the public favours Rachel Reeves as Chancellor over Jeremy Hunt, while… Morgan Jones 4th March, 2024, 12:01 pm
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 ‘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
speech 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… Tom Belger 15th February, 2024, 11:00 am
News £28 billion U-turn: Almost 30% of our readers say Starmer right to ditch pledge Labour leader Keir Starmer’s confirmation that the party’s £28 billion green spending target is being “stood down” prompted… Tom Belger 8th February, 2024, 9:41 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
News £28bn green U-turn confirmed as Labour says Tories ‘maxed out UK credit card’ Labour has confirmed it has ditched a £28 billion spending target for its Green Prosperity Plan today, with… Tom Belger 8th February, 2024, 7:12 am
Columnist ‘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… George Dibb 6th February, 2024, 8:23 am
Comment ‘Labour has looked to Biden for ideas. Could he also have learnt from Starmer?’ Among the unlikeliest of the 16,000 basketball fans that filed into the Capital One Arena in Washington DC… Ed Owen 3rd February, 2024, 9:00 am