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What game is Labour playing on a wealth tax?

What game is Labour playing on a wealth tax?

Why it suits Rachel Reeves to keep everyone guessing about the Budget.

By George Eaton

Comment and Analysis

Starmerism is disintegrating

Aaron Bastani

Unite’s dirty war on Angela Rayner

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

Why is Boris Johnson so scared of Emmanuel Macron?

Why is Boris Johnson so scared of Emmanuel Macron?

David Gauke

Conservatives don’t understand London

Rachel Cunliffe

Inside Robert Jenrick’s New Right revolution

Harry Lambert

Labour’s new factions show how worried the party is

Labour’s new factions show how worried the party is

Megan Kenyon

Interviews and Profiles

Gordon Brown: the moral economist

The New Statesman Interview

Gordon Brown: the moral economist

Kate Mossman

The eco-centrists want the Green Party back

The Weekend Interview

The eco-centrists want the Green Party back

Megan Kenyon

What Keir Starmer can’t say

What Keir Starmer can’t say

Tom McTague

Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival

The Weekend Interview

Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival

Jonny Ball

Podcasts

Politics podcast

How to defeat Reform UK

New polling exposes weaknesses in "brand Farage".

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Politics podcast

SEND: Labour’s next backbench battle

SEND provision is in the government's sights. Backbenchers aren't happy.

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Politics podcast

One year of Labour rule

Can things still only get better?

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Politics podcast

Welfare reform concessions are humiliating for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

Will Dunn discusses his explosive cover story, on the New Statesman podcast.

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