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Sally Keeble comments on this year's autumn statement as it happens ---------------- 14.00 This was a statement that was big on political rhetoric, but thin on practical details. Bold statements on sticking to austerity, with some warm words in the direction of young...

Labour needs to get ahead of the economic argument Labour spent the decade prior to the crash in 2008 boasting about ‘an end to boom and bust’. This presumed to have overcome the cyclical dynamics that have always characterised capitalism. At the general election in...

Ed Miliband’s speech on living standards at the beginning of November received much attention. Tackling the ‘Wonga economy’ he proposed a tax break for companies that pay the living wage. This opened up another front in Labour’s attack on the coalition’s record on the...

Last night Hopi Sen dreamt of a politics where Conquest's third law was repealed. He reports back on what he saw. It is 5 December. The chamber of the House of Commons is full. George Osborne gets up, his hands shaking a little. The opposition benches notice his...