There is an unsolvable and immeasurable balance between lives and livelihoods. So we are going to need consensus across the House.
If, that is, interest rates carry on at rock bottom rates. But we have to take a chance on growing our way out of this crisis.
As the tenth anniversary of the 2010 election approaches, the author says that Labour’s own austerity record and plans were almost as tough as the Coalition’s.
The tax benefits of being self-employed should reflect genuine value added relative to normal employment.
It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.
We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.
That’s a legitimate political agenda, and people are quite welcome to vote for it. But they deserve to know what’s coming.
Let him carry on what he’s started by exploding the financial framework Labour announced in only two days.
We unleashed Nick Timothy on the world as a columnist. Meet the husband-and-wife combo of Rachel Wolf and James Frayne.
The former Universities Minister revives his tax-cutting plan from the earlier stages of this leadership contest.
Shifting the focus to FE is not only the right thing to do, but would send a powerful message.
In sum, Hammond said: vote for May’s Deal – or the economy gets it. But there’s more than one way of dicing the next election result.
Philippa Stroud’s new Social Metrics Commission hopes to bring light to murky statistical waters. But can numbers ever truly neutralise politics?
There are three main factors at work – genetics, plus cultural and social factors. And it’s not possible at present to disentangle the mix.