News & Insight

26 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...

12 June 2013

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,...

6 June 2013

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...

6 June 2013

Ed Miliband may have just pulled off the most unexpected trick of all: delivering a populist Labour stance on welfare. New research by the Fabian Society and the charity Crisis published today showed that there is overwhelming public support for...

4 June 2013

David Cameron came to power promising to protect the NHS and also badged his coalition as ‘the greenest government ever’. Both promises have, to a large extent, become a source of ridicule for the coalition. But on both the NHS...

4 June 2013

“A politician is like the person who would build an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, instead of constructing a good fence at the top.” Never did the phrase seem so apt as last week when NHS leaders warned that...