The two-child benefit cap makes the future a luxury
Labour should scrap the welfare limit as a first step to a more family-friendly tax system.
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Labour’s fiscal paradox
Keir Starmer is doing everything he can to not be Liz Truss – but does that mean he’s just Rishi Sunak?
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Tax wealth and reward work
We must end the absurdity of nurses and teachers paying more of their income in tax than hedge fund traders.
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If Jeremy Hunt won’t cut taxes, what are the Tories for?
The Chancellor has explicitly tied tax cuts to inflation – so they may not happen before the next election at…
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Can Labour afford to be ambitious?
As the era of cheap money ends, the party needs to get radical on tax.
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Inheritance tax is more popular than the right thinks
It’s only a question of how it is sold to the electorate.
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PMQs: The Tories will need a “bigger note” to excuse economic failures
Keir Starmer turned the Conservatives’ favourite line about the infamous “there is no money” letter against them.
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Why cutting inheritance tax would be the most regressive move possible
Rishi Sunak’s plans wouldn’t help the middle classes – only the ultra-rich.
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Commons investigation suggests Sunak is continuity Boris Johnson
Despite Tory attempts to move beyond its reputation for sleaze, it keeps falling into trouble with parliamentary standards.
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The absurdity of Liz Truss blaming high taxes on woke culture
By making wokery the bogeyman for an economic disaster she’s implicated in, Truss has given the game away.
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Labour’s Sunak adverts show Keir Starmer has finally decided to gamble
The Labour leader’s more aggressive advisers have won but the party has now invited counterattacks.
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Why won’t Labour say it will tax Rishi Sunak and the super-rich more?
The party has missed a golden political opportunity by not promising to tax capital gains at the same rate as…
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Why Rishi Sunak is taxed less than you are
The Prime Minister’s tax return is a reminder of how little the UK taxes wealth.
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Jeremy Hunt didn’t fix anything
The Budget did nothing to address the UK’s fundamental problems: Brexit and a deeply unequal economy.
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The quiet consensus: how Labour and the Tories are converging
The Budget confirmed that the two main parties are closer on policy than at any time since 2008.
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It’s time to talk policy in the SNP leadership race
So far, constitutional matters have dominated the debate over key issues like the climate and child poverty.
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Britain’s broken tax system
How political expediency overrides logic and fairness in the UK’s chaotic finances.
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The myth of the “fiscal black hole” has been exposed
How did a £70bn “hole” become a £30bn “surplus”? The answer is that we’re doing economic policy wrong.
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Margaret Hodge: Confronting anti-Semitism in Labour was harder than fighting the BNP
After 50 years as a politician, the Blairite veteran reflects on Jeremy Corbyn, urges Labour to tax wealth, and says…
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Liz Truss’s essay shows she is as deluded as ever
The danger is how many Tories will agree with the former prime minister’s bizarre logic.
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