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A future chancellor needs flexibility

The political pressure for Labour to accept George Osborne’s spending envelope will be intense. In a new essay from the forthcoming Fabian Review magazine, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, Andrew Harrop, explains why its crucial Labour should resist the political pressure...

On the front line

This week, the health regulator Monitor announced the appointment of a trust special administrator at Mid Staffs after they concluded that the services currently provided were neither clinically nor financially sustainable. This brought into focus again the failings identified by...

Can we pick our moment for talking about Europe?

Last month, I had the pleasure to chair a session on Europe’s progressive ambitions at the Fabian Europe Conference. Many important points were made during this debate, so many that I often tend to forget about half of them, but...

The ‘one nation’ test

Labour is slowly moving from mere response mode to feeling out more concrete terrain on what its next state may look like. Some have argued they have taken too long to make this transition but, the publicity (and departmental research...

The opportunity for a place-based approach

Both ‘Total Place’, initiated through a partnership between the last Labour government and local government, and the current coalition government’s ‘Whole Place Community Budgets’ have much to offer to the debate on future spending choices.

I was the programme director for...

An aspiration nation?

"This is a budget for an ‘aspiration nation’" according to George Osborne just a few week's ago. The appeal to aspiration has been rolled out a number of times now by senior Conservative party figures. Cameron used it as he...

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