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Labour party members from across the political spectrum will be at Progress annual conference tomorrow to discuss the next steps for One Nation Labour. A good start would be to take a look at the economic context. Our economic policy must be credible with markets. It...

Today’s GDP figures offer a glimmer of light for the economy, up 0.3 per cent following the previous quarter’s contraction, thus avoiding a triple dip and raising hopes of good times ahead. Though still small, the better than expected rise has allowed George Osborne...

George Osborne has indeed set a fiscal trap. To accept his cuts is economic madness. To reject them is electoral suicide. If Labour accepts the ‘spending envelope’, Labour undermines its ‘too far, too fast’ argument, the IMF’s belated agreement with our stance and, as...

Tom Greatrex, Labour and Cooperative MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, will tonight outline concerns of the negative economic impact of fixed odds betting terminals in betting shops. For those of us who live close to high streets and main streets across the UK, the...