The only poll that will really matter, Chuka Umunna said rightly at last night’s In Conversation With event chaired by...
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The Tories are putting jobs and investment at risk
It seems commonplace nowadays to claim that Europe will be a big feature of the next election. I do not disagree. But...
Autumn statement liveblog 2014
As George Osborne announces his 2014 autumn statement, former member of the Treasury select committee and Labour...
The chimera of deregulation
Yesterday's Queen's speech exposed a fundamental misunderstanding at the heart of Conservative economic policy. It is...
Why Sheffield needs a mayor
Of all the manifest faults of the Cameroonian coalition, most poignant for me was the accusation by a close friend...
Labour’s national duty
Labour has spent years now worrying about how to gain credibility on economic policy. Meanwhile, the Conservatives and...
Unions and the new economy
‘There will come a time when the Treasury understands economics but it hasn’t happened yet’ and with that remark it...
Waiting for growth
Waiting for the economic recovery is beginning to feel a little like waiting for Godot. You keep being told it’s going...
It’s the green economy, stupid
As we get closer to June, excitement is building in the global environment community about the UN Sustainable...
Five bills in 500 words
Five bills in 500 words the man from Progress says. No polling or strategy nonsense this time, and obviously, as...
The economic mea culpa
I don't know if you have seen the Labour party action plan for family budgets. Or our insistence that the NHS will be...
Let’s start building council houses
David Cameron’s latest back-to-the-1980s gimmick is to give a big bribe to council home renters to buy their property....