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Pernicious distortions about welfare conceal its true role By Karen Buck —Caroline has been nursing for 15 years, specialising in mental health and caring for often deeply disturbed patients in a secure hospital unit. She cannot make the rent though. Even a former...

Public spending decisions will be painful for Labour but could also improve the party’s credibility Unless you have more faith in George Osborne’s ability to run the economy than the official forecasts, you have to assume that whoever wins office in 2015 will inherit...

The scale of the economic problems facing us is enormous and we have a government with a failed economic policy and hoping for the best. Labour needs to build more credibility on spending to make progress with the electorate. Meanwhile, the One Nation theme can be...

Stephen Beer writes the first of a three-part series for Progress this week on building One Nation economics. Where is the coalition going wrong and how can Labour rebuild its credibility on the issue? --------- The UK economy is in a poor state. Growth remains...