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The Labour Government begins 2025 deeply unpopular, falling in the polls and with its leader’s personal ratings plummeting. There is no mystery as...
This week Sir Keir Starmer will be giving a speech setting out his “Plan for Change”. No 10 spinners defensively brief that “it’s not a...
As you age you’re supposed to grow envious of the freedom, looks, and athleticism of the young. Once upon a time you could have added opportunities...
In 1930, the eminent British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay entitled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. At the...
It is less than four months since Labour took office. Too early, perhaps, to talk about make or break moments – but the Government’s first Budget...
The firebrand Labour MP Dennis Skinner once said to the Tories, “When posh boys are in trouble, they sack the servants”. At the time, two special...
Is austerity over? That is the question that hung over Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour conference. The doom and gloom talk of a...
“Stop the boats,” said Rishi Sunak. He didn’t. “Annual net migration in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands,” declared...
The economic case for cutting winter fuel payments to 10 million pensioners simply does not stack up. But that has not stopped Labour ministers...
When Labour was elected by a landslide in July it was with the simple but optimistic slogan “Change”. People naturally interpreted that as change...
For years, workers in the UK have suffered real-terms cuts to their pay. The last Parliament (2019-2024) stands out as the only one in post-war...
Labour has a huge funding gap to make up. The Tories left the public finances in a poor state: a weak economy, underfunded public services and huge...
When Rachel Reeves told the House of Commons that “difficult decisions” lay ahead, she fired the starting gun on a debate that we should have had...
By failing to overturn the two-child benefit cap, and other social security cuts, Labour is prioritising the wealth of the rich over the welfare of...