If Labour adopts the proposals of the Fabian spending commission, it will pay...
by Jonathan Todd David Cameron – as, for some reason, he is always quick to do – taunted Labour thus in PMQs last week: “More spending, more borrowing, more debt. It is the same old Labour.” On the...
View ArticleLabour needs to stop fiddling and get on with the big stuff
by Rob Marchant The opportunity for Labour to score party points against the Tories on the economy is clearly diminishing. While that is difficult rather than disastrous, our reaction is important....
View ArticleForget Teddy Roosevelt, LBJ’s public service reforms show Labour the way to...
by Rich Durber Ed Balls’ speech over the weekend announcing that Labour will aim to run a surplus by the end of the next parliament raises significant questions about public service reform. No matter...
View ArticleHow does Labour get its economic message across?
by Jonathan Todd “The last Labour government,” The Times front page last Friday reported Ed Balls as saying, “didn’t regulate the financial services in a tough enough way.” They reported this as “the...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne hasn’t set a trap for Labour. He’s launched a boomerang
by Jonathan Todd George Osborne thinks he is being clever, setting a trap for Labour. But Labour should vote against his proposal, expected to be contained in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement, for a new...
View ArticleLabour’s wants to triangulate on the deficit but has forgotten how
by Atul Hatwal Today, Labour remembered the deficit. Good, it’s long over-due. The party senses an opportunity, one last chance to reduce the Tories’ double digit lead on the economy. The theory is...
View ArticleIf we are all Labour Uncutters now, let’s do this properly
by Jonathan Todd We are all in the black Labourites now, Labour Uncutters and proud. It was In the Black Labour published by Policy Network in 2011 that reminded us that fiscal prudence and social...
View ArticleCarpe deficit: Miliband must seize his moment on spending cuts
by Samuel Dale It’s working. On Sunday, Labour took a seven point lead in an Opinium and Observer poll with 36% to the Tories’ 29%. Sure, it could be a rogue poll, a one-off that misleads us all. Or...
View ArticleWhat has changed on the deficit since general election 2010?
by Jonathan Todd This is the first of a series of pieces from Uncut on what has changed in respect of key political issues since the last general election. Looking over this timescale, we hope to...
View ArticleLabour must support George Osborne’s budget surplus law
by Samuel Dale George Osborne is fond of saying that in opposition you move to the centre while in government you can move the centre. Ed Miliband’s disastrous attempt to move the centre from...
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