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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.

Prem Sikka: Excessive dividends are strangling the UK economy

Prem Sikka
28 January, 2020

Companies aren’t investing because they feel pressure to pay dividends instead.

While the government blame snow, there’s another reason for the UK’s dismal growth rate

Josiah Mortimer
27 April, 2018

‘Snow excuse, Phil…’ It’s cuts, not bad weather that’s to blame for shoddy GDP figures.

To avoid climate catastrophe, it’s time for Labour to scrap the idea of growth

Mark H Burton
28 November, 2017

We need to challenge our obsession with economic growth before it destroys the planet.

Three graphs that show just how strange – and worrying – the UK labour market is right now

17 May, 2017

The employment rate is rising but real wages are falling

Reporting on pay inequality isn’t enough – it’s time for a compulsory ratio

Phil Hall
7 February, 2017

Policy makers need to show they’re serious about reform

Brexit cannot become an all-purpose alibi for Tory incompetence

Jos Gallacher
27 November, 2016

The Autumn Statement forecasts tell a story of economic failure

No, Daily Mail, the IFS didn’t blame Brexit for the worst living standards since the 1920s

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
25 November, 2016

Someone is misrepresenting the evidence – but it’s not the IFS

The economy is stalling – but to fix it we need to look beyond Brexit

Jos Gallacher
27 October, 2016

We must get back to debating low productivity, low investment, low wages and regional imbalances

EU membership critical to Northern Irish farming

Ed Jacobs
10 May, 2016

EU Agriculture Commissioner warns against Brexit, as Northern Ireland growth forecast revised down

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