LEAP economics

During the Labour leadership election, many people were impressed by Ed Balls' apparent conversion to a social democratic economic settl...

Labour has recently made some headway with its message that there is a cost of living crisis - which has continued despite Osborne's rec...

Prem Sikka What are the chances that in the face of public criticisms, big business would curb its tax avoidance practices? Well, not much,...

Since Ed Miliband became leader, the strategy of the left has been to make issues safe for him by building support within and outside the pa...

Earlier this week Labour leader Ed Miliband made the case (somewhat haphazardly) for more short-term borrowing to stimulate the economy. Not...

LABOUR LAND CAMPAIGN PRESS RELEASE: February 18 th 2013 Ed Miliband is right to look at shifting tax off incomes and on to unearned in...

Andrew Fisher, LEAP co-ordinator looks beyond the fluff to discover the real issues in the Budget. (This article first appears in the May 20...

It's been a demoralising spectacle watching senior Labour politicians attempt to announce their 'fiscal credibility'. Far from b...

The report by Ofgem last week showed the profit margin for energy companies has risen to £125 per customer per year. It expressed concern a...

It occurred to me today that the debate over public sector pensions is actually the debate about the economic crisis in microcosm. Few deny ...

Thursday's Morning Star reported that the Labour frontbench failed to back a Labour backbench amendment to the Finance Bill that would ...

Last week, on 22 June, MPs debated the economy. It was an 'opposition day' in the House of Commons, which means the opposition party...

On both sides of the Atlantic, a massive onslaught is under way with the single purpose of dramatically reducing the share of national wealt...

If Colonel Gaddafi is said to be “delusional”, believing that all Libyans love him when clearly they do not, where does that leave Ed Miliba...

As the Morning Star reports today, there is unanimous condemnation of the VAT rise that took effect yesterday, 4 January: The coalition gove...

Labour leader Ed Miliband, and the rest of the Labour frontbench now seem to be triangulating towards a group they have dubbed the 'sque...

Since the story switched from 'bad banks' to 'bloated public sector', at some point in 2009, there has been a political cons...