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After the Oxi landslide many Greeks are fearful. ‘I am scared. But if we leave Europe we are alone. Turkey, Syria, Russia, the banks are closed and our economy in crisis. What we do?’, one friend asks It was the young who, overwhelmingly, gave Alexis Tsipiras the Oxi...

Never again can Labour go into an election so distrusted on managing public finances. As leadership candidates discuss rebuilding our economic credibility, another election could have just as big an impact on voters learning to trust us with their money again. Old...

Amid all the soul-searching and data-crunching of the past few weeks, one statistic haunts me more than any other. By a margin of 39 points, people who voted on 7 May said the Conservatives would manage the economy more effectively than Labour. That is not a small gap...

Labour’s manifesto tackles head on the issue of economic credibility, in terms of fiscal prudence and household finances. In contrast, the Conservatives seem to be undermining their own economic arguments. When Labour lost the 2010 general election, its economic...