Labour’s strict spending rules could split a Starmer government
Without economic growth, tensions between the leader and Rachel Reeves could emerge.
ByRachel Reeves
Labour may never embrace tax rises
Even in office, the party would still want to fend off Tory economic attacks.
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How Labour is quietly burying its £28bn green spending pledge
The party is desperate to avoid being painted as a party of higher taxes.
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Why Labour may be forced to rejoin the European single market
If the party wants strong economic growth it will need to think radically.
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Why the Autumn Statement was a hammer blow to Labour’s green ambitions
Cuts are now baked into the next government's base budget. Any new tax rises or growth windfalls will be plugging…
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The everyday economists guiding Rachel Reeves
The shadow chancellor’s history of women economists raises profound questions about the future of work.
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Rachel Reeves would be foolish to adopt “Bidenomics” in the UK
The policy’s core is reindustrialisation, but industry requires highly skilled labour. Where do these people come from?
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Labour must find a path to responsible spending with flexible fiscal rules
By 2030, government will need £142bn more a year just to maintain current public service levels. This is not the…
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Letter of the week: World leaders must show the way forward
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Why I always do business over breakfast
Also this week: the blue suit brigade, conference karaoke.
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The seven lessons of Labour conference
Beyond Keir Starmer, two main camps have emerged in the party: one led by Rachel Reeves, the other by Wes…
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Rachel Reeves gives her best speech yet
The shadow chancellor forcefully laid down Labour’s attack lines for the next election.
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It’s Rachel Reeves’s party now
The shadow chancellor mixed fiscal discipline with class war. Both went down equally well in a changed Labour Party.
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New polling confirms Labour is now the party of business
As the party’s conference begins, research shared exclusively with New Statesman Spotlight shows industry prefers Labour to the Tories.
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Adam Posen: “Brexit is a trade war by the UK on itself”
The US economist and former Monetary Policy Committee member on how Britain became so poor and where Labour is going…
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How should Labour deal with Nigel Farage?
Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have been heading in different directions.
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“Cautious Rachel” defends two-child benefit cap
Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting put on a jovial show of Labour unity amid rumours of division.
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Will the child benefit cap fracture Starmerism?
Shadow cabinet ministers are toeing the line but the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said he will still scrap…
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Labour and the Tories have more in common than they say
Both parties are committed to spending restraint and neither has a compelling plan for growth.
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How Labour can solve its borrowing problem
The lessons from Bidenomics are as much about politics as economics.
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