Tanweer Ali Articles

The Progress annual conference 2013 session on earning the public’s trust on the economy was lively and chock-a-block with ideas. The panelists, John Eatwell, Margaret Hodge, Nick Pearce, Ann Pettifor and Jonathan Portes, brought a wide range of perspectives to the...

Figures for December show that government borrowing exceeded the predictions of the Office for Budget Responsibility. Although overall government borrowing for the financial year is set to be lower than the previous year, this is due to some interesting accounting...

The announcement that Labour would introduce a job guarantee for over-25s unemployed for two years or more was greeted with quite some confusion in the media and blogosphere. Many critical voices on the left interpreted this simply as Labour getting tough on benefit...

Despite recent successes, Labour remains haunted by the perception of being the high-spending party. Though our argument that the coalition’s cuts are ‘too much, too soon’ is gaining credence, overall the electorate remains swayed by the rationale for austerity. The...