Keir Starmer rejects ‘tax and spend’, so do Labour’s plans for economic growth add up?
In launching Labour’s manifesto, Keir Starmer sought to shed his party’s “tax and spend” image. Inst...
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The chancellor has tied her own hands with her fiscal rules – here’s why she should change them
The new government has made boosting economic growth its central goal. Chancellor Rachel Reeves wast...
Did Starmer have to be so miserable? The doom and gloom may be more political than economic
Keir Starmer has warned that things will get worse for the UK before they get better. The prime mini...
The EU’s latest proposal to save its economy aims to avoid a ‘slow agony’ – but it lacks bold ideas
In Brussels, the talk of the town is a report on the future of European competitiveness, calling for...
The latest proposal to save the EU’s economy aims to avoid a ‘slow agony’ – but it lacks bold ideas
In Brussels, the talk of the town is a report on the future of European competitiveness, calling for...
Torsten Bell is Labour’s rising star. He could now be on a collision course over its economic policy
The Labour MP Torsten Bell is widely considered to be a rising star of the party. His recent book, G...
Nobel economics prize: how colonial history explains why strong institutions are vital to a country’s prosperity – expert Q&A
What did Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson win for? The three academics won the prize...
How to make sure the budget secures the investment Britain needs
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised to “rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment” in the ...
How finance can be part of the solution to the world’s biodiversity crisis
More than half of the world’s total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, th...