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Matthew Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd is completing a PhD on the Labour Party and Britain’s political economy at Queen Mary University London supervised by Dr Patrick Diamond
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What We Really Mean When We Speak About Fiscal Rules

The Labour government is realising that the economic structural constraints on British economic policy making are real. Deteriorating global economic circumstances have forced the Treasury to enforce spending cuts to departments in order to remain within the fiscal rules. Bond market shifts, the backlash to taxation plans and the importance

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Inflating Labour

What do likely coming changes in inflation mean for Labour’s electoral hopes? Inflation is coming, but for how long it will last above the 2% Bank of England target and whether Britain will face several inflation spikes is still debatable. If Labour hopes to sell a new World War II

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