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By Declan Gaffney During the election campaign, Labour attacked Conservative proposals to reduce tax credit entitlement for better off families, saying that the savings they were aiming for would require cuts to entitlement for families…
By Sebastian Michnowicz With the Telegraph dubbing him 'the enforcer' it seems George Osborne is to budgets what Dirty Harry is to crime: relentlessly tough. But while we may not mind Clint Eastwood's character handing out a bit of rough…
By Richard Darlington Two things in life are inevitable, said Benjamin Franklin: death and taxes. The Tories campaigned against 'Labour's Death Tax' and against 'Labour's Job Tax'. But Labour left it to the Lib Dems to campaign against the…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Britain changed yesterday. We became a different sort of country. The warning signals have been with us for some time. And yesterday we finally understood their meaning. We are…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Britain changed yesterday. We became a different sort of country. The warning signals have been with us for some time. And yesterday we finally understood their meaning. We are…
By Josh Fenton-Glynn On the face of it, the noise and briefings around the forthcoming budget on cutting benefits to middle and upper class families seems no bad thing. However, with evidence showing that the more restrictions put on…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Every week, Unions Together are questioning all five Labour leadership candidates on specific issues that matter to their members. Last week, the Milibands, Diane Abbott, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham all answered…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Writing on his website today and speaking at an event in Cardiff, David Miliband said that as Labour leader he would seek to rebalance the distribution of power, as well as income, in the workplace by tackling…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ed Balls has written a pre-emptive attack article on the Tories' apparent plans to raise VAT in the forthcoming budget next week. Writing in the Telegraph tomorrow, Balls will say: "Over 13 years, Labour made…
By Declan Gaffney As the public is softened up for expenditure cuts, we can expect the ConDem criticism of New Labour's record on poverty to move from results to objectives. Labour will be accused not only of having failed dismally on child…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ed Miliband has pledged to keep the 50p top rate of tax on those earning over £150,000 a year if he becomes Labour leader, because he says one of Labour's core values is to address inequality and reduce the…
By Sarah Milne / @Sarah_E_Milne A film made by the campaign group Don't Judge My Family was released yesterday to highlight the potential consequences for widows and single parents of the Conservatives' proposed marriage tax break. The…
