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As the senior economist at IPPR, I am one of providers of the ‘pages and pages of the most expert advice’ about the ‘easy-complicated’ choices that Steve Van Riel identifies in his chapter (at least I hope some of my advice is ‘expert’!). So it is good to be reminded...

The process of discussion and debate on the Purple Papers and The Purple Book that preceded it (of which this blog is part) is a welcome one. But in the sphere of economics, there is more to be gained from the essays that are ostensibly about other subjects than from...

Labour must make sure its messages chime with voters like Harlow’s, argues Suzy Stride Harlow is rightly known as a traditional bellwether seat, one that Labour has to win to achieve a working majority at the next election – the Ohio of British politics. But it does...

By 2015, for 13 years in a row the British state will have spent more than it raised in taxes. The interest we pay on that debt will have risen to £60bn a year – twice the size of the tax credits budget – and will continue to rise unless that government takes...