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Mike Buckley

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street

How Trump’s win upends Rachel Reeves’ budget

Mike Buckley
14 November, 2024

Trump’s commitment to protectionism has destroyed the growth models on which Reeves’s budget was built

Rachel Reeves

Labour’s current fiscal rules prevent the investment sorely needed for public services

Mike Buckley
18 September, 2024

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.

Keir Starmer outside Number 10 Downing Street

The first few weeks of a Labour government show how it is rebuilding our country for the better

Mike Buckley
25 July, 2024

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.

HMRC
Opinion

Why we need to have an honest debate about tax reform

Mike Buckley
3 July, 2024

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.

Rishi Sunak speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons at PMQs
Opinion

Why we need morality in our politics more than ever

Mike Buckley
11 April, 2024

“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.”

Jeremy Hunt
Opinion

Why Jeremy Hunt’s budget is a failure both politically and economically

Mike Buckley
18 March, 2024

Hunt has twice sabotaged this strategy with successive cuts to national insurance

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer
Opinion

Why Labour made the right call on downgrading the £28bn climate investment figure

Mike Buckley
1 March, 2024

Labour’s climate and environment plans are still vastly more coherent and ambitious than those of the Tories.

Rishi Sunak
Opinion

Why the Rwanda policy makes no sense practically or politically

Mike Buckley
9 February, 2024

Practically speaking the bill will not do what Sunak claims.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons
Opinion

Is Labour on track to unseat Tories across the ‘blue wall’?

Mike Buckley
19 January, 2024

Seats which didn’t feature in Blair’s landslides are now in play

Protesters from Coal Action Network set up a climate justice memorial at Lloyd’s of London.
Opinion

Governments need to break with fossil fuel addiction to tackle the climate crisis

Mike Buckley
22 December, 2023

The brutal truth as we reflect on COP28 is that we are far from where we need to be to prevent catastrophic climate change

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