Jon Trickett MP: Labour’s fiscal rules are fuelling stagnation and political disaffection
A posture designed to calm nerves in opposition has solidified into a constraint that now shapes every major policy choice
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Letters to the editor: What progressives can learn from 2025
We asked progressives from across the political spectrum about what lessons they think we need to learn and how to fight back in the year ahead.
This budget paid the political price up-front, but will the public feel the benefit by the next election?
Living standards are unbelievably important to all governments, but especially this one.
The government’s budget is simply managing decline
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
Loss of business investment caused by Brexit by this year could be between £275 billion and £400 billion
Far from unleashing a new era of growth and investment, yet more evidence shows how damaging Brexit has been.
Andy McDonald MP: Nigel Farage is defending the wealthy while asking everyone else to tighten their belts
Farage’s speech was framed as an appeal to “growth,” but it was a defence of privilege. He fretted over inheritance and “exit” taxes that inconvenience the rich.
Another global company to quit Britain for Europe because of Brexit
The WTTC joins a growing list of businesses that have shifted operations from the UK to the EU since the 2016 referendum.
Brexit will harm UK economy ‘for the foreseeable future’, says Bank of England chief
‘The answer is that for the foreseeable future it is negative.’
Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses
This is how to secure sustained economic growth