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Sally Keeble Articles

Deflation danger

The general gaiety over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership obliterated discussion of last week’s worrisome inflation figures. They should have been our first line of attack against the Tory government. Zero inflation might be assumed to be a good thing by a generation brought...

Is ‘southern discomfort’ becoming Midlands Misery?

‘You have to realise how much people elsewhere do not like London.’ The admonishment from a frontbencher during the general election campaign explains some of the findings in Lewis Baston’s report ‘Is southern discomfort spreading?’. Although we are rightly proud of...

Tax credits support families

By cutting away at tax credits, George Osborne is destroying the prop that kept many middle England families afloat during the recession and faltering recovery. Tax credits – now under threat in Osborne’s £12bn welfare cuts – were Gordon Brown’s great reform operated...

Autumn statement liveblog 2014

As George Osborne announces his 2014 autumn statement, former member of the Treasury select committee and Labour parliamentary candidate in Northampton North Sally Keeble shares her insight as it happens. Additional #AutumnStatement tweets also selected by the...