Category: Blog

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Tom Hayes MP

Labour’s Energy Mission: Taking Back Control of our Energy Future

The cost-of-living crisis has been a disaster for businesses and working people. Every surgery appointment, every community visit, every door knocking session, I hear how the wages that once supported families now fall far short. This is why tackling energy costs is Labour’s priority. And it’s a vital one. Our

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Chris Curtis

To Build the Next Generation of New Towns, We Need to Empower SMEs

Growing up in Milton Keynes, I saw firsthand how planning with purpose transforms lives. My hometown wasn’t built by accident; it was designed with ambition, shaped by Labour values, and delivered at scale. We didn’t just build houses. We built communities, infrastructure, and opportunity. Now, as the newly elected MP

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Dr Sophy Antrobus

The Strategic Defence Review – An Assessment

After months of waiting, we finally got to see the recommendations made to government in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) on 2nd June. The Review was conducted differently from previous iterations. It was delivered by three independent advisors, a politician, a soldier, and a foreign policy expert (as they put

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Josh Arnold-Forster

The SDR – People, Equipment or Both?

The publication of the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) and then the Spending Review raise the usual questions about affordability and funding priorities. Will the hopeful recommendations set out in the SDR (a work in progress) be delivered by the expected increases in defence spending set out in the Spending Review?

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Progressive Britain

Spending Review 2025: Return of the Reeves

Yesterday’s Spending Review was important in all kinds of ways. It was important because it sets the direction for the next couple of years of spending, aiming to provide the stability that businesses and the country have been lacking. It was important because it marks the start of the major

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Alice Macdonald MP

Financing a New Future for International Development

The Gleneagles Summit 2005, Eriko Sugita / Reuters 20 years ago, the words of Nelson Mandela rang out in Trafalgar Square. He called on the world to Make Poverty History stating that ‘as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest’.

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Dave Eaton

What Our Personal Finances Tell Us About the Rise of Populism

On Friday, the financial services regulator (the Financial Conduct Authority) published its latest Financial Lives Survey, a nationally representative survey of nearly 18,000 people that serves as a state of the nation report on the UK’s personal finances. It provides insights into our attitudes to managing money, accessing important financial

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