The Economy
Competitor banks are needed to shake up the system
Competitor banks to shake up the system should primarily have community interests as its focus. What Miliband is signalling at today is a good first move.
Ed Miliband’s speech: fixing the long-term problems
The key is convincing voters that Miliband has the a better solution than George Osborne without creating a rod for his own back by claiming that he can completely 'fix' the economy.
Nigel Farage is right, but for the wrong reasons
It’s a rare thing for a socialist to be inspired by something Nigel Farage says.
Growth is being driven by consumer credit and household debt, despite the need for exports and manufacturing
The Tories have clearly not learned the lesson of the last two decades.
It’s telling that the chancellor failed to mention ‘manufacturing’ once in his Autumn Statement
The re-balancing of the economy which Osborne promised has been all but abandoned.
Funding for Lending scheme failing as lending falls by £3.8 billion in May
New data published this week shows that banks are still not lending to British businesses, despite the government's much trumpeted Funding for Lending scheme.