Labour’s policy review considered how to tackle some of our biggest political challenges. We asked a panel of experts whether its external commissions make the grade…
What it says:
Working poverty is a national challenge. Over 250,000 people do not receive the minimum wage and its value has fallen...
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Ed Miliband was right when he said an incoming Labour government’s top priority must be to tackle inequality, raise living standards and guarantee fair shares of growth. Now he has to convince voters that Labour has bold policies to deliver...
There are good reasons why a new approach to business - where concerns around economic long-termism, public health, environmental sustainability and strong local communities become integral to a profitable British business model - should appeal to both the political instincts...
Over the weekend Ed Miliband asked Andrew Dilnot, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, to consider introducing a new measure of UK living standards. He said: "A future Labour government would use the indicator as the key measure by...
When the physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” he wasn’t thinking about the way we measure the economy, but he could just as well have been. Economic success isn’t success unless it is...
1. This is a new kind of recovery
When is a recovery not a recovery? This year the UK’s growth has taken off in a way quite unlike the aftermath of previous recessions.
Your view of the performance of the economy in...