budget Articles

There is nothing newsworthy about politicians breaking promises nowadays. Yet the conservative Australian government led by prime minister Tony Abbott has handed down its first budget since coming to office - and it turns out that this budget of broken promises was...

How Labour should respond to the budget’s pensions shake-up Labour and the Tories share a perverse incentive to talk down the economy just at the time that economic growth begins to soar. George Osborne and David Cameron, acutely aware that their strongest trait in...

Ed Miliband's Labour are dominating the strategic debate within politics but losing key tactical battles. Yet the answer to looking and sounding like a government in waiting at those big times is staring the party's leadership team in the face. The first lesson of...

Tory budget changes to pensions have left Labour in a quandary about whether to back greater individual freedom or defend a policy that creates a more stable society. This kind of dilemma is nothing new and reading Robert Skidelsky’s biography of John Maynard Keynes I...