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Review: The Unbalanced Economy
20 October 2014
Barely six months from the general election the Labour party’s relationship with business is, at best, clouded. The ‘no’ campaign’s deployment of business leaders in the last frenetic days of the Scottish referendum is a keen reminder of how dangerous...
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Will the election be won in the air by the Tories or on the ground by Labour?
20 October 2014
With the party conference season over and the final ‘zombie’ parliamentary session underway, attention is now well and truly focused on the general election. Aside from the widening policy gap between the two largest parties, the next six months of...
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The ‘In’ Crowd: Labour needs to define a pro-EU agenda
17 October 2014
The genie of nationalism has been truly unleashed by Alex Salmond, and Labour now finds itself buffeted by unprecedented forces on either side of the border. Douglas Carswell has ripped apart the delicate Tory truce on Europe and the obscure...
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A new politics: Let’s give MPs a job description
17 October 2014
How will the new politics come about? What’ll be the big bang to bring about this brave new world? Will it be gender equality on the green benches? The first black prime minister? Or might it be something altogether more...
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One year on: Why a 2030 vision for public spending still matters
16 October 2014
Today marks one year since the publication of 2030 Vision the final report of the Fabian Society’s 2013 Commission on Future Spending Choices. Since then Ed Balls has announced fiscal rules which would enable the commission’s central proposals to be...
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Rising Voices: How feminism can open up politics
15 October 2014
It’s often said that David Cameron has a women problem but it might be fairer to say that women have a David Cameron problem. In the four short years since Cameron became prime minister his government’s austerity programme has had...
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