Green Politics
Davis joins Miliband with warning on growth
David Davies today warns that David Cameron and the Conservative party that he must develop a growth strategy. It follows Ed Miliband's call yesterday for a focus on growth.
The real “squeezed middle”
In his leader's speech tomorrow Ed Miliband is expected to announce his intention to reach out to Britain's struggling middle classes.
The big split on deficit reduction is between Labour and Tories
The big split on deficit reduction is between Labour and Tories. The totality of Tory cuts' plans are almost twice as severe as Alistair Darling's proposal.
High hopes ‘Green Ed’ will put climate change back up agenda
Greenpeace has "high hopes" about Ed Miliband's ability to hold the coalition to account, while Friends of the Earth describe as Labour's greenest ever leader.
The second dimension of deficit reduction
Labour's economic direction is far from determined. But the ratio of taxation to spending is just as important a discussion as the speed of deficit reduction.
Scrap 50p to introduce a land tax
The Fabian Society organised a policy Dragon's Den earlier today. I suggested scrapping the 50p rate of tax to pay for a land tax.