Andrew Adonis Articles

Those that talk of setting up a new pro-European party to combat Brexit should reflect on the fate of the Social Democratic party, writes Andrew Adonis In spring 1981 the Labour party appeared to be vanishing over the far left horizon. It was committed to leaving...

Ed Balls’ announcement today, that a Labour government will legislate for an independent National Infrastructure Commission in its first queen’s speech after the election, will find strong support from business leaders, 89 per cent of whom – according to a recent CBI...

The coalition has an especially dismal record in the north of England. The number of young people on the dole for more than a year is up 62 per cent across the north of England, compared to a national increase of 25 per cent. Wages for working people in the north have...

At long last, the economy is growing. But it is not translating into well-paid, or even better paid, jobs nationwide because of deep structural problems in our fractured economy – mass youth unemployment, skills shortages, too few high-growth companies which innovate...