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Shining a light in
Greater transparency is part of the zeitgeist of the political era, as different layers of government rush to publish what they spend, and even the prime minister’s private text messages are revealed to the world at large. Thinktanks are no exception to the prevailing mood. The recently launched website Who Funds You? rated 20 thinktanks …
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Still no plan for growth
On Wednesday the deputy prime minister published a bill on House of Lords reform. We welcome the legislation. I have always voted for an elected second chamber and I look forward to doing so again – this time with Conservative backbenchers joining us in the division lobby. When the last Labour government took through legislation …
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Not dead yet
Reports of the death of the Tory party are exaggerated, writes Steve Van Riel Last month, a poll by ComRes found that 52 per cent of the public agreed with the idea that ‘the Conservative party is unlikely to win the next election.’ For Labour supporters, that number stood at 74 per cent. Meanwhile, an …
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Labour’s economic cause
When Ed Miliband first started talking about the ‘squeezed middle’, many in the political and media establishment professed confusion. But it didn’t take long before the phrase began to appear in newspaper headlines, with the Oxford English Dictionary pronouncing Ed’s coinage their new ‘word of the year’ in 2011. Why has this phrase gained such …
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Banks need a Clause IV moment
First the public had to bail out banks who bet billions on poor value securitised mortgage packages. They then had to look on at a culture of reward that seemed from a different planet while they coped with pay freezes and price rises. Now they find that within Barclays, and very possibly other banks, traders …
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Pioneer, not paper, candidates
The Labour party loves challenges: 211 seats where we sit in third place, on average 19,000 votes behind the incumbent; just 10 MPs across the south out of a possible 197. The speakers and delegates attending the inaugural Third Place First conference in Reading at the end of last month showed their determination to prove …
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