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By David Talbot When youth unemployment hit one million during the recession of the 1980s it provoked a national crisis. There were riots in 1981 and 1985, all in inner-city areas suffering from high youth unemployment. The Thatcher…
By Ann Jones I am sure that many of you reading this were as angry as me when George Osborne declared that VAT would rise as he laid out his emergency budget before the country back in June. Via a written question to the Welsh Assembly…
By Jamie Ellison David Cameron is in the news today talking of the need to curb benefit fraud in the UK: "We need to do more to stop fraud. £1.5bn of hard-earned taxpayers' money is being stolen from the taxpayer. This is simply not…
By Katie McCrory / @katie_mccrory The recent news that the Fawcett Society has filed papers with the High Court seeking a Judicial Review of the government's recent emergency budget has buoyed the hearts of families all over the country…
By Matthew Zarb-Cousin / @matt_zarbcousin Before the general election, the question of how to deal with the deficit highlighted the competing economic philosophies of the two major parties. As a Keynesian, I believe that cutting in a time…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 One of Labour's great new MPs has shown some good leadership on the economy, and written an open letter to George Osborne outlining some potential economic alternatives to the Tory-Lib Dem emergency budget…
By Jon Trickett MP The finance debate this week has highlighted the wholly regressive nature of the coalition government's budget and interventions from various Labour MPs have exposed their plans as a failure to reduce the government…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Writing in the Guardian, Ed Balls says that Michael Gove's cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future programme has been a "thoughtless" and "shambolic" assault on our schools. * The Mirror says…
By Harriet Harman MP UPDATE: Harriet's campaign now has a petition at the Labour Party website. Calling all Labour activists! Calling all Labour councillors! Help us make the 57 Lib Dem MPs vote against the government's plans to increase…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter It is difficult to decide which was the bigger lie about the emergency budget - that it was fair or that it was unavoidable. We now know that that it will slam the poorest hardest. It's a…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter It is difficult to decide which was the bigger lie about the emergency budget - that it was fair or that it was unavoidable. We now know that that it will slam the poorest hardest. It's a…
By Tim Nicholls / @tim_nicholls It's been a few days since the budget now. Initial anger has had time to subside. We can look on the budget now with cool dispassionate analysis. Except, it hasn't and we can't. The budget was an affront to…
