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Labour can draw on its past to build a truly green future economy By Daniel Stevens and Tristan Stubbs —The right is continuing its attempt to seize the green mantle from Labour. David Cameron famously proclaimed a wish to run the ‘greenest government ever’; more...

As Labour politicians debate growth strategies, the challenge is to meet the scale of the task. From my perspective as a City investment manager, I have watched as the mood in markets has shifted over the past few months.  Back in 2010, following a period of stimulus,...

In May 2010, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came together to form a coalition government, promising to erase the economic deficit in just one parliament, with ‘Plan B’ not an option. Over two years into their economic programme, the UK is again in recession...

It is not great news for any government to find that its economic policy has been discredited. The latest GDP figures showed the economy shrank again last quarter, by 0.7 per cent. That must be particularly hard to take for a coalition government formed, it was...