Allen Simpson Articles

Britain’s new divide is not about a rejection of liberalism, writes Allen Simpson In the dying days of the Gordon Brown government, Douglas Carswell made an impish appearance at a Fabian conference to tell the left that it had a structural problem. He said our purpose...

There is a well trodden formula to government finance announcements. The chancellor rumbles on about why the economy is heading in the right direction under his watch but doom would surely result if the feckless opposition were in charge. Then after the cleansing...

I have a confession to make. Last year I put a bet on Brexit winning. To be clear – I voted for Remain, but I was almost certain that the referendum was not going to go well. The main reason for my certainty was that I had spent the previous two years knocking on...

Bank ringfencing is not only a false hope - it is nowhere near ambitious enough. I know Stephen Beer would be embarrassed if I called him one of the Labour party's most valuable and underused resources, but there it is. His pamphlet on the economic credibility problem...