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Chief Policy Adviser at Labour Together

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Here's the @labourtogether.bsky.social collab, in which I argue that adversarial-judicial structures aren't "planning" in any normal sense, and we could have more output from the same people doing the same job for the same money www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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Build the rail! Save the snails! — Labour Together
Why does British infrastructure cost so much? This paper, by economist Dan Davies, argues that Britain’s adversarial planning system forces developers to gold-plate solutions to hypothetical problems....
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
(know that’s not the main point of your tweet, but I think the general point that gov having a record of the checks makes the substance it helping on illegal migration more likely)
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It is a different mechanism, but when we paired UC with hmrc data, fraud on earnings outside of self employment reduced to zero. My (unsurprising!) bet is that this will help much more than you expect, and we should be thinking about regularisation etc
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I might be blind here, but I don’t see what is supposed to be the lie here. Separately, my case is we require checks but have no audit trail of those checks. Doing that helps enforcement. I think this is most obviously clear in right to rent checks when paired with a national landlord database.
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Abby Jitendra @abbyabhaya.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Really like this from @morganwild.bsky.social. Lots of attention on the immigration implications. But not enough on the radical potential on social policy - counting unwaged work like care as contribution, proper income protection, long-term care funding. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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The case for contribution — Labour Together
This essay, by Labour Together’s chief policy adviser, Morgan Wild, argues that this Labour government should root itself in an ethic and expectation of contribution : the actions we take that make o...
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 15/09/2025
This from @morganwild.bsky.social and @peterhyman.bsky.social is excellent. Was waving a lighter in the air while reading. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
sorry - missed this reply in my response. amen to experimenting with rooftop solar if we can!
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I guess not even about meeting the target - just we're accelerating towards clean power a long way, and so (I hope!) domestic energy consumption should be less carbon constrained reasonably quickly
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We just got an aircon unit for our bedroom - part of why I was comfortable with it was confidence about Lab's clean power plan. It's carbon intensive now, but it won't be soon. Obviously politically, I want energy abundance & clean power to be consistent. Am I kidding myself?
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Polls which ask people to have opinions that they previously did not have for a small monetary prize where there is no downside to being wrong probably do more work to persuade policy wonks the public are stupid than any other single thing
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
You've signed up to a polling platform in return for monthly entries into a £100 Amazon voucher prize draw. Quick, rank these monkeys by their population size. Primatologist: no wonder our orangutans are so endangered with a public thinking there's so many of them
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
@britishprogress.bsky.social @labourtogether.bsky.social
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
And you can read the full report here: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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Getting Britain off the ground — Labour Together
A runway is a several kilometre length of reinforced pavement. Building Heathrow’s first runway took around a year. It is everything else that now takes time. This paper tries to answer a simple ques...
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Great write up from @oliver_wright here: www.thetimes.com/article/42ff...
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Labour considers fast-tracking approval of big projects
The move, which would take years off the planning process, is loosely modelled on a Canadian scheme developed by Mark Carney
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Infrastructure boosts growth - but only when it’s built. Lots of this Labour government’s decisions are difficult. A larger economy makes all of these decisions easier.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We could replace most of the report with a post-it note: Parliament is sovereign. MPs saved Scunthorpe steel in 9 hours. If we bring that urgency to building, we can bring down people's costs much quicker.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
But we can use the tools in the report to massively ramp up building. New homes means cheaper rent. New grid means cheaper, cleaner bills. New transport means access to better jobs. More runways means cheaper holidays. Labour can fix the cost of living crisis - but only through building.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
✈️ Britain’s talked about a third runway at Heathrow for two decades. Our new report with @BritishProgress shows how a flight could take off before 2029 - if Parliament chooses to speed up the process through a Public Bill.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
In the last 5 years, there have been 23 mentions of Oasis tickets, 5899 mentions of Debt, 1634 mentions of National Debt, 1026 to British Debt, and 434 to Household debt.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on the big state capacity problems and where they came from is so excellent. I find it gives me an intellectual permission I didn't realise I needed to think past public choice theory: hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/taming-the...
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Taming the unaccountability machine
“Public choice cybernetics” for the 21st century.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.
West India lobby was the prototype of an industry under attack. One of its first impulses was to consider cosmetic changes.* "The vulgar are influenced by names and titles," suggested one proslavery writer that year. "Instead of sLAVES, let the Negroes be called ASSISTANT-PLANTERS; and we shall not then hear such violent outcries against the slave-trade by pious divines, tender-hearted poetesses, and shortsighted politicians.
On May 12, 1789, Wilberforce rose to make his first speech against slavery, in the famous voice that, as one observer noted, was "so distinct and melodious that... if he talked nonsense you would feel obliged to hear him." He spoke from
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Always thought there was useful think tank gap in the market for this kind of thing. Centre For Ruinously Tedious Policy Work
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Unless your appetite for periods of sustained disruption is very high, this is the way. Having sat on energy code reviews, it is still burned into my brain as the single most tedious thing I have ever done in my life.
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Doctor Who predicting 2000 years of absolutely riotous public planning committee meetings.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This isn’t quite the paeon to deliverism I meant it to be - my point is if the idea of deliverism is only improvement in economic aggregates it might fail. But proper attention to delivering what voters actually want (eg stable prices) might not.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
the ‘Calver Gaps’ also made a lot of sense to me. It would be weird if any given n% change in population affected you personally! It can still be a big deal for the country
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
But that’s a different puzzle - hadn’t realised this was us so presume the standard partisan diff in perceptions is right!
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I’m not sure I think this but I suppose the claim is: for most people, individual trajectories trump aggregate economic shifts. Which makes sense of why people hate inflation so much - you are used to real income growing over time, but not nominal price increase. Hence 5 point dip in personal rating
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Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story. Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Why? Most people experience rising incomes over time rather than the aggregate of ~0 the local or national economy has. People look fairly rational to my mind here and responsive to delivery!
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13/12/2024
They should be offered the opportunity to avoid the fine by handing back the Postcode Address File to the government.
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Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
On the other hand, the terribleness of non-US efforts provides an important function, which is to gatekeep the ability to do analysis to financial journalists who can use them. A vital social role.
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Incredibly cool work. One (bad) conclusion from it would be politicians should give more time for evaluations. My (correct) conclusion is that voters expect results and it follows we should really limit our epistemic ambitions and just make decisive policy with imperfect information
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
You should try and embed this more in Treasury brain. The structural disconnect between AME and DEL spending (that they are largely different conversations, even when tackling the same problem) is a way that probably structurally biases us away from cash benchmarking
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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Only one solution to this - put major ONS surveys on the same compulsion as the Census and jury duty. Consequences for people’s lives are much more important.
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