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The annual autumn statement this Wednesday is not just about the economy, it is very much a political event. Reports that George Osborne plans to introduce a law requiring the government to balance the budget by the middle of the next parliament illustrate that well....

The best line of today’s prime minister’s questions came from Jamie Reed, Labour member of parliament for Copeland. ‘The first thing I think of when I see a white van is whether it is my father or brother driving it.’ It was a rebuke to the Tories opposite who had...

The Conservatives are worried about the economy. Their key election message will be the economy. That has always been the battleground for 2015. Opinion polls putting the Conservatives well ahead of Labour on economic credibility measures support their strategy, but...

Ed Miliband gave his fightback speech in the Beveridge Hall in the Senate House at the unashamedly elite University of London in Bloomsbury. The room was full of north London Labour members. This was Miliband the intellectual, the guy who is not ashamed of ideas or of...