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Good morning. Welcome back to the full-fat LabourList morning email, and welcome to 2024, the general election year. Probably. Speculation about the timing of the next election was a topic of keen discussion over the break, with Emily…
Labour, it is fair to say, is pretty reluctant to attach its name to new taxes. The reasons are obvious enough. The party wants to ditch its reputation for tax and spend in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis and it also wants to position…
High street experts have welcomed Labour's plans for the sector as bringing a "sense of hope" but expressed some concern about how the party may approach business rates reform, warning of potential "unintended consequences". In a panel…
Andy Burnham has said "there is an argument for a basic income" and proposed overhauling inheritance tax to fund a National Care Service, declaring that a "much fairer, more equal society" could be created if public money were spent…
The economics of this Autumn Statement do not add up. The Chancellor has all but undone a year’s work restoring the UK’s economic credibility since Truss’ disastrous mini-budget, with the gamification of the fiscal rules stretching…
Senior Labour politicians have urged Jeremy Hunt to increase benefits in line with inflation following reports that the Chancellor could increase social security by a smaller amount in the autumn statement on Wednesday. A letter to Hunt –…
Women’s work is historically and systematically undervalued. This simple fact cannot be disputed. Whether it is in the hidden domestic work that still disproportionately falls on the shoulders of women or the persistence of low pay in…
Inheritance tax: the great survivor of Conservative conference. Following months of briefings, speculation and a Telegraph campaign backed by more than 50 Tory MPs, many had expected it to be on the chopping block. In the end, the Prime…
On August 25th, Colne Valley Constituency Labour Party agreed to send the following motion forward to national conference: “Conference notes that for decades the benefits of economic growth have been increasingly appropriated by a tiny…
The bulk of Keir Starmer's reshuffle may have wrapped up on Monday, but we're now getting further batches of more junior frontbench appointments. 12 new appointments to frontbench In the last few minutes, Jessica Morden has become shadow…
As Orwell once wrote, “England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly”. This sounds as familiar today as it was when written in 1941, and can be applied…
It is the biggest act of wealth destruction on record. We knew Trussonomics was a catastrophe, but now a new report has laid bare the bill; sky high interest rates, sparked by the Liz Truss budget, and the Tories’ losing fight against…
