Today the Fabian Society publishes the first report of our Commission on Future Spending Choices, a year-long inquiry into the spending choices which will face whatever government comes to power in 2015. We set up the commission at a time...
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Labour’s masochism strategy has us trapped picking over the bones of our past when we should be talking about the country’s future. In arguing that things the last Labour government actually got right we got wrong, we seem intent on...
This is the first report of the Fabian Commission on Future Spending Choices which was established to consider the public spending options for a government coming to power in 2015.
June 2013
Why is the Chancellor announcing cuts today at all? Figures released by the OBR show why. Despite spending cuts weak growth has meant that from 2011-12 the deficit has barely moved, throwing the government’s strategy way off course.
The deficit fell...
Politics can be overflowing with gurus at times. And it’s sometimes hard to tell who might be a flash in the pan rather than the next Beatrice Webb.
So it’s worth reflecting on those who have genuinely changed the political landscape,...
The below speech was presented to the Fabian Society event in partnership with Labour's Policy Review on 3rd June.
"There are three key areas where I believe we are now taking Labour’s transport policy in a new direction:
"First, we have recognised...