Missing majority

Starmer’s relaunch Controversy of the week “Delivery, ...

A spectre is haunting Keir Starmer’s Labour. Just as the prime minister and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, thought they had banished the ghost of Corbynism, a new wave of “left populism” has st

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

Three accounts of modern liberalism

“Politicians always seem to assume that the British public isn’t willing to pay more tax in return for better public services,” says Vince Cable. “I’m not entirely sure that’s true.” The former Lib De

Pick of the week’s correspondence