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Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them
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Reeves needs to be a bit braver with her accounts
If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting
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Lie of the week: “Labour promised to keep energy prices frozen.”
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It’s time for a progressive alliance on electoral reform
Labour should work with the Lib Dems and Greens to help stop polarisation and public apathy
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Labour’s new smoking ban is cliched nannyism
There is no good reason for banning cigarettes outside pubs while allowing them on the pavement next door
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Starmer risks a membership vote row
Political parties belong to activists as much as they do to leaders
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How Labour could fill the black hole
The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions
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Now change the rules to make change happen
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has some tough decisions to make in October’s budget, but has options to achieve growth and avoid austerity
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The danger in Labour’s briefing battle
The public is sick of political in-fighting, so Keir Starmer must clamp down on No.10 leaks
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Whatever happened to good news?
It’s time Labour did something big and transformative to save us from a news cycle of misery
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Shame in public life seems to have vanished
The government has demonstrated a conviction that dangerous behaviour has to have consequences
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Labour’s opportunity to tackle the housing crisis
No government in half a century has built 300,000 homes every year, but that’s what Labour wants to do now
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The Brexit problems lining up for Starmer
New polls suggest support for the PM’s softly-softly stance on Europe – but for how long?
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The end of the peer show
Thank goodness the hereditary peers are going – some claimed huge expenses and gave almost nothing in return
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The Tories are finished for good if they lurch any further right
If Labour fails in its declared missions, the Conservatives could have another chance – but not if they veer to the right
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Politicians – speak up for immigration
It makes the country richer, culturally and economically. Now’s the time to say so
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Labour blow a big chance on youth mobility
The government says it’s levelling with us on the economy - so why not on the truth about a scheme demonised by Brexiteers?
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The sun comes out for Rachel Reeves
Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them
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A cull of hereditaries and elders in the Lords is not the answer. So what is?
A term limit, rather than an age limit, is key to reforming the upper house
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Who will oppose Keir Starmer?
Labour dominates Westminster, and the Tories are a diminished mess – but the two child benefit cap will reveal the true opposition
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It’s the contradictions that may trip up the PM
Legislating is the relatively easy part, particularly given a massive Commons majority. Implementation is another matter entirely
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We’ll all pay for the HS2 delay
Sooner or later, a British government will be forced to restart HS2. It should have been this one
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Sanity is coming home
Three weeks in, Starmer has brought Britain closer to the EU, and outraged Brexiteers. What’s not to like?
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Critical Mass.. on science
In TNE’s new column, science writer Philip Ball provides news and analysis from scientists, policymakers and the frontiers of human knowledge
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The perfect symbolism of Blenheim
One day - and a couple of subtle hints - showed Europe that the grown-ups are back in charge of Britain
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The bullying training for new MPs is not enough
Westminster’s reputation is in the gutter and the onus is on Labour to repair it
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The King’s Speech needed more volume
Keir Starmer could have been bolder when laying out his government’s agenda - and he may come to regret it
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The two-child benefit cap must go
A way to scrap this unfair, unpopular policy should have been at the heart of Labour’s King’s Speech
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A lost leader and a win for Welsh journalism
Discredited Vaughan Gething lost control of his own narrative
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Dodging the cost of Brexit
If the Treasury published an audit of the damage done by leaving, Starmer would face a serious political problem
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The New Beveridge Report
In the footsteps of the 1942 blueprint for a new Britain, a series of essays by leading policy thinkers revisits our key challenges.. and how to fix them.
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Millions live in the shadow of poverty. We must act
If we want a truly free society and an end to poverty, then we, and our new government, must build a country that is free from ‘Want’