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Adair Turner Articles

Time to shape a distinctively Labour economic policy project

The Progress editorial this month has correctly identified that the absence of a distinctive Labour project for the British economy has made it difficult for us to re-establish our credibility and take George Osborne successfully to task. All politicians claim to be...

We need to talk about Basel

It’s a pity that progressives have not mustered the same zeal over changes to global banking regulation as they did for last year’s Copenhagen summit or for voting reform representation during the post-election coalition talks. Given the minimal reaction to the Basel III banking accords, this epoch-defining issue appears in danger of falling off the radar, despite the opportunity it represents to ask some uncomfortable questions of the government.

All’s fair

As the coalition tries to usurp the idea of fairness, Tristram Hunt argues Labour must fight back by recognising its own future rests on a renewed idea of what is fair, as it has done in the past

Not all it seems

So, the grey vote will be the target for the coalition in 2015. Having protected pensioners in the current budget round, the promise is now to plan (but not implement) a mouth-watering, vote-winning 50 per cent pension increase before the next general election. But this is not all it appears…