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Opinion

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Opinion

UK governments are failing to curb corporate tax abuses and leaving people to pay the price

Prem Sikka
14 March, 2025

Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.

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Opinion

Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill: a bold step to get Britain building

Chris Worrall
13 March, 2025

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill takes decisive action to streamline planning, cut delays, and create a more pro-growth environment

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Labour’s failure to tackle trust in politics risks undermining its whole agenda

Shaun Roberts
12 March, 2025

‘Trust brought down Boris Johnson and the last Conservative Government. If Labour doesn’t start to rebuild trust, and soon, then it could be heading in the same direction.’

A photo of Generation Rent activists campaigning against Section 21 no-fault evictions
Opinion

Students are being abandoned by the Renters’ Rights Bill

Tilly Smith
10 March, 2025

Despite being some of the most in need, students are being overlooked in the government’s rental reforms, Generation Rent’s Tilly Smith writes

Electric vehicle
Opinion

Wera Hobhouse MP: Now is the time to charge up our ambition for Electric Vehicles 

Wera Hobhouse MP
10 March, 2025

Contrary to what some are saying, the real threat to British carmakers isn’t the transition to EVs moving too quickly. It’s that the EV transition isn’t moving quickly enough.  

Opinion

Sadiq Khan has intervened in Wandsworth’s local plan, now the council needs to change course

Chris Worrall
7 March, 2025

The South London council’s local plan review will slow down development, reduce affordable housing and exacerbate London’s housing crisis, Worrall argues

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope

Prem Sikka
7 March, 2025

‘The government needs to recalibrate policies’

Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
Opinion

Jon Trickett: Rather than mimicking far-right parties we should be confronting them

Jon Trickett
5 March, 2025

We need to confront them. And when we do so, we will see they are vulnerable.

London
Opinion

London’s Housing Crisis: The Boroughs That Are Building – and Those That Are Failing Us

Chris Worrall
4 March, 2025

London is in the grip of a housing emergency

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Securonomics: Why Labour’s New Economic Model is Exactly What Britain Needs

Chris Worrall
3 March, 2025

If Britain is to regain its position as a world leader in innovation, industry, and growth, then it needs bold, intelligent economic thinking—not the tired slogans of economic nationalism.

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