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Jamie McMahon Articles

Can Labour ever win the deficit argument?

Reading The Independent at my desk yesterday all was going well, I’m still on a high from Sunday’s 5-2 thrashing of Spurs and two pages of coverage on the Leveson Inquiry is always enjoyable. I happily flick to page 6 where I see Labour is up two to 40 per cent, a...

Losing momentum

Who won? Ed Miliband had a good day today, but then he appeared to be pushing at an open door with the NHS. Ed hit hard. Though Cameron fought hard to press back, Ed pressed harder and grew in confidence as the session went on. Ed did, however, slow towards the end; I...

Britain needs more than HS2

  We all remember the current spending review. Osborne told us Britain was bankrupt, Gordon Brown had got it all wrong, and the only way to cut the deficit was to cut and cut fast. Capital investment was in the firing line and project after project was halted. We...

Stealth cuts hitting cities hardest

A day after thousands of students marched in London against the well documented and unfair hiking of tuition fees, it is worth considering a less well known form of unfairness around student funding. Students are right to be angry about tuition fees rising – people...
Losing momentum

Losing momentum

Who won? Ed Miliband had a good day today, but then he appeared to be pushing at an open door with the NHS. Ed hit...