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.
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.
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.
“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.”
Hunt has twice sabotaged this strategy with successive cuts to national insurance
Labour’s climate and environment plans are still vastly more coherent and ambitious than those of the Tories.
Practically speaking the bill will not do what Sunak claims.
Seats which didn’t feature in Blair’s landslides are now in play
The brutal truth as we reflect on COP28 is that we are far from where we need to be to prevent catastrophic climate change
Child poverty doesn’t just mean having less opportunities and less access to goods and services growing up. Its effects are long term and in many cases last a lifetime.
