Young people often get written off in party politics. What’s the point in chasing their support when they don’t vote anyway? Well for Labour, there’s every point. Turning out first-time voters who say they support the party will play a critical part of securing victory in 2015. It’s true that lots of young people don’t…
Yesterday on LabourList Adam Lent argued that the Labour party has been overrun by ‘vulgar Fabianism’. In saying this Lent considerably overstates the intellectual weight of Fabianism in contemporary Labour debates (perhaps I should be claiming otherwise) and underplays the influence of ideas which I imagine are more to his liking. ‘Spirit of 1945’ Fabianism…
The idea of the ‘squeezed middle’ is at the heart of today’s political debates about economic recovery and living standards. It’s a pithy phrase reflecting evidence that people in the middle of the income distribution have seen their incomes stagnate while the costs of living keeps rising. But almost all the recent discussion and analysis…
The political pressure for Labour to accept George Osborne’s spending envelope will be intense. In a new essay from the forthcoming Fabian Review magazine, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, Andrew Harrop, explains why its crucial Labour should resist the political pressure to do so and outlines some future spending scenarios. For more on the the Fabian…
Time flies. The terrible defeat of 2010 feels like yesterday, but suddenly Labour’s 2015 manifesto is just two years away. The good news is the party’s policy debates have energy and vigour, but so far there’s a lot more diagnosis than prescription. Ed Miliband’s promise of a 10p rate of income tax shows how that…
Many on the left would say that the greatest threat facing Britain’s welfare state is the present government’s reckless upheavals and swingeing spending cuts. Not Patrick Diamond and Guy Lodge, the authors of Policy Network’s new report European welfare states after the crisis. They argue that inertia not radicalism is the problem: ‘the biggest threat to…
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