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Dan Tomlinson

Dan Tomlinson is the Labour MP for Chipping Barnet. Dan started his career in HM Treasury and, before being elected as an MP, worked at the UK’s leading anti-poverty charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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A Tale of Two Budgets: Rachel Reeves is Fixing the Foundations to Deliver Change

This Labour government has rightly defined itself politically against the chaos and choices unleashed on our economy and public finances over the course of 14 years of Conservative government. But in last week’s Budget that political contrast was sharpened with the clarity that only comes from pounds and pence detailed in Treasury spreadsheets. In every way possible

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£10 million every hour. The electorate saved us from continued Conservative mismanagement, now it falls to Labour to fix the mess we’ve inherited

Earlier this week, Rachel Reeves revealed a £22 billion bombshell in the public finances that is our inheritance from the Conservative Party. This shortfall, that the Conservatives have bequeathed to the country and left to a Labour Government to resolve, is a disgrace. Certainly, it is sadly reflective of the

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