Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewhe...

Wealth taxes are on Rachel Reeves’ agenda. Thomas Piketty has shown why it matters, and how we could stop the growth of inequality

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This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on....

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As the Office for Budget Responsibility noted yesterday in its new Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report: At 94 per cent of GDP, UK government debt is the fourth highest among advanced European econo...

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax rises, warning: “I don’t think you can tax your way to...

We are facing a serious political crisis. The next Westminster general election is four years away, given the size of Starmer’s majority in the Commons it would require a rebellion of unprece…

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We are a small group of British people who have researched their family histories, and learned that their ancestors made significant wealth from, or helped organise, more than two centuries of industr...