In September 2015 Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour party by an overwhelming 59 per cent of the electorate. His candidacy had, at first, been considered something of a token gesture but his campaign then...
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The events of 2015 proved that the British left needs a fundamental intellectual re-set. In less than six months, mainstream social democratic ideas were rejected twice over, with Ed Miliband’s bitter general election defeat and Jeremy Corbyn’s victory over the...
Recent reforms have focused on raising the personal allowance to ‘take the poorest out of tax’, but this is not the progressive policy it purports to be. If we want to genuinely support lower income households, we need to engage with reforming a...
In recent years the focus of fiscal policy in the UK, as in many industrialised countries in the wake of the financial crisis, has been on reducing the overall rate of public expenditure. However, despite a series of reforms to...
In the immediate aftermath of Labour’s painful election defeat, every different colour of the progressive left emerged to give its view as to why Labour lost. Each particular brand of progressivism was able to show that – lo and behold...
The UK’s tax system isn’t fit for purpose and specialists across the board agree on the need for reform.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Mirrlees Review provided a comprehensive evaluation of the tax system, stressing its complexity and arguing that there...