How Trump’s win upends Rachel Reeves’ budget
Trump’s commitment to protectionism has destroyed the growth models on which Reeves’s budget was built
Mike Buckley
Labour’s current fiscal rules prevent the investment sorely needed for public services
This week a group of eight senior economists echoed the unions’ warning, arguing that fiscal plans inherited by Labour will reduce investment spending as a share of GDP, repeat earlier mistakes, backfire and undermine growth.
The first few weeks of a Labour government show how it is rebuilding our country for the better
Labour have been busy. No one can accuse them of being ill prepared for Government, surprise though the early election date was, nor of inactivity in the first few weeks of government before recess.
Why we need to have an honest debate about tax reform
Amidst the debates on whether taxes are too high or too low there is very little discussion on whether our tax system is well designed, yet it is here that much of the fairness – or lack thereof – and efficacy of the system is found.
Why we need morality in our politics more than ever
“The more politics looks like a form of management rather than an engine of positive and morally desirable change, the more energy it will lose.”
Why Jeremy Hunt’s budget is a failure both politically and economically
Hunt has twice sabotaged this strategy with successive cuts to national insurance
Why Labour made the right call on downgrading the £28bn climate investment figure
Labour’s climate and environment plans are still vastly more coherent and ambitious than those of the Tories.
Why the Rwanda policy makes no sense practically or politically
Practically speaking the bill will not do what Sunak claims.
Is Labour on track to unseat Tories across the ‘blue wall’?
Seats which didn’t feature in Blair’s landslides are now in play
Governments need to break with fossil fuel addiction to tackle the climate crisis
The brutal truth as we reflect on COP28 is that we are far from where we need to be to prevent catastrophic climate change