budget Articles

Labour cannot allow the Tories to claim their regressive changes to Britain's tax credit system help to redress economic imbalance, writes Ella Crine I love a good national statistic, or a graph. But when economic issues  strike me most, is when they unexpectedly...

Labour must show it understands that clamping down on tax evasion alone will not create the prosperity we need to fund our public services, argues Mike Katz Much of John McDonnell’s analysis of the government’s economic failure – and the risk to our prosperity and...

George Osborne and Alistair Darling have stated that if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union, there will need to be an emergency budget. Not surprisingly, their claim has been criticised by the Leave campaign, but the central point is surely correct...

Labour went down to a terrible defeat in May. Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein’s post-match analysis was insightful. The ‘shy Tories’ who have long preoccupied pollsters and Labour party strategists are, he said, neither shy nor Tory. They were genuinely undecided,...