1 天前 · An insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left. By George Eaton In Margaret Thatcher’s final TV interview with Brian Walden – newly dramatised by Channel 4 – she remarks at one point: “Let us get down to the success we have had, the way in which people now ...

1 天前 · The Britain of the mid-Eighties was utterly different from Britain at the time of In Place of Strife, the title of Castle’s soon-abandoned white paper.In 1968, the Trades Union Congress had marked the centenary of its founding with epic self-confidence: commemorative stamps, a Guildhall dinner for 700 guests (including the Queen) and a celebratory concert at the Royal …

4 天之前 · Scotland’s complex income tax structure – there are six separate bands, and Scots earning around £30,000 and above pay more than people elsewhere in the UK – will be tackled, with a particular emphasis on helping middle earners who currently face some challenging cliff edges due to the way the UK and devolved tax systems interact.

6 天之前 · Hailing the “Golden Age of America” that he insists will be ushered in by his proposed tariff regime – initially in the form of 25 per cent tariffs on most imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10 per cent on all imports from China – Donald Trump acknowledged there may be “some pain” ahead for American consumers.

4 天之前 · These developments come at a time when the radical flank of the British climate movement is at its lowest ebb for years. The last government’s draconian criminalisation of peaceful protest, defended by Labour, has had a chilling effect – and six years since the heyday of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future, the climate movement is losing popular support.

5 天之前 · Now the institution might outsource responsibility for safeguarding. By Tim Wyatt If the Church of England was not in crisis before, it certainly is now. The resignation of the Bishop of Liverpool on 30 January was a new low in the national church’s seemingly never-ending safeguarding scandal ...

6 天之前 · And the reasons for unpopularity matter too. Glance at More in Common’s polling and it becomes clear that not all policies are created equal. Those in the “danger zone” – highly unpopular and highly salient – include the winter fuel payment cuts, the prisoner early-release scheme, higher inheritance tax on farmland, the rise in bus fares and the National Insurance …

6 天之前 · Keir Starmer is right to pursue a “reset” with the EU. But he risks pleasing no one. By New Statesman Five years after the UK left the European Union, Britain is confronting an inconvenient truth: Brexit is not done. In truth, it could never be done. Rather than settling the European question ...