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OPINION - The novel of the summer has reminded me: where did the politics of hope go?

Fourteen years ago, when David Cameron defeated Gordon Brown to usher in the new British age of chaotic, wayward Conservatism, I was still in my thirties. Watching first a sequence of divisions sewn into the country, on issues of genuine political consequence, then the factious, petty culture wars that nagged…

Evening Standard

General Election 2024: Is Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder a watershed moment in the race for No10?

Analysis: Will Rishi Sunak’s D-Day mistake go down in election history books as Gordon Brown’s ‘bigotgate’ and Neil Kinnock’s Sheffield rally?

Evening Standard

Election 2024: will Sunak and Starmer facing off in televised debates make a difference to voters?

The first televised debate of the 2024 general election will take place on Tuesday, June 4, putting Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer head to head on ITV. ITV has also announced they will hold a multiparty debate later in June. The BBC will host at least two multiparty debates, as…

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Bank of England Under Fire From Leader of the Campaign for Fair Finance

Is the Bank of England up to the job of managing the UK's monetary policy? The leader of The Campaign for Fair Finance Dr Roger Gewolb offered me his views of the UK's central bank.

International Business Times UK

Starmer must introduce wealth tax after Labour wins election, top Blair aide says

Senior adviser who worked for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown says there is an ‘urgent imperative’ for a new government to address wealth inequality in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Why Labour must adopt radical new tax policies – including on wealth and capital gains

The Brown-era adage ‘Prudence with a purpose’ could be the way to obtain the economic stability that has eluded every UK government since the 2008 financial crisis, say Colm Murphy and Patrick Diamond

The Guardian - UK

Six televised rounds of Starmer v Sunak? I can’t imagine anything worse

These debates are rarely useful, let alone enlightening. Let’s have a head-to-head of progressive parties instead, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Harriet Harman: ‘Sunak thinks the economy is going to get worse. Otherwise he would wait’

The Labour veteran entered the commons as one of only 21 women, then spent years fighting for a seat at the table. She discusses sexism, backlash and power as she prepares to leave parliament

The Guardian - UK

It’s time to tackle the root causes of poverty

The unequal distribution of resources needs to be addressed at government level

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - I advised David Cameron before he became PM and this is what I'd tell Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

We will never know if Gareth Southgate’s Euros squad announcement just the day before was the trigger that caused Rishi Sunak to make his surprise election announcement. Did the Prime Minister look at a line-up loaded with young talent and conclude that going to the polls just as the nation…

Evening Standard

How a Labour MP became a rightwing figurehead – and enabled the clampdown on protest

The transformation of John Woodcock exposes the authoritarian potential that can lurk in Britain’s centre left, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Former Scots chief constable to lead Gordon Brown's 'multibank' anti-poverty scheme

SCOTLAND'S former chief constable Iain Livingstone has been appointed to head up a drive to deliver donations of millions of pounds worth of…

The National (Scotland)

Wes Streeting defends Archbishop of Canterbury’s attack on two-child benefit cap – ‘literally his job’

The Archbishop slammed the cap as ‘cruel’ and called on Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to commit to scrapping it

The Independent UK

The Observer view on child poverty: Labour must tackle this scourge as soon as possible

Growing up in a poor household is one of the biggest barriers to opportunity, yet it affects millions of children

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‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

A quarter of Britain’s children live below the poverty line. Near his Fife home, the former PM shows how charities help families and says this issue must be a priority for any government

The Independent UK

Member of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet ‘misspoke’ - to the tune of £70bn - on key green policy

Tories seize on his comments to claim there is a multi-billion-pound ‘black hole’ in Labour’s plans

The Conversation

Gordon Brown wants £3 billion for the ‘austerity generation’. But the UK needs a more enduring solution

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a rescue plan for some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people. There are, he said, 3.4 million children born after 2010 who are in poverty and whose development has been affected by the austerity policies of Conservative-led governments.

The Guardian - UK

Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

We know about the hardship of ‘Thatcher’s children’, but a new generation of Tories has raised inequality to even higher levels, says the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

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The Guardian - UK

Children of austerity need a rescue plan, Gordon Brown says

Former prime minister proposes £3bn support package for ‘blighted generation’, including Sure Start relaunch

The Guardian - UK

There are good reasons not to take local results as general election predictions

Current political map cannot be compared with the past, but there are warnings for Conservatives to heed nonetheless

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on rethinking economics: a discipline in disarray holds too much sway in the UK

Editorial: Gordon Brown challenged Conservative ideas to fix the economy. His successors unfortunately will not

The Guardian - UK

Lord Field of Birkenhead obituary

MP for Birkenhead for 40 years and former Labour minister who was asked to ‘think the unthinkable’ about welfare reform

The Guardian - UK

Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it

A new report shows how transformational the initiative was. But Keir Starmer’s early-years plans lack the same vision, says journalist Terri White

The Guardian - UK

Reports of Sunak’s foul mood in No 10 echo the final days of other dying administrations

Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administration

The Guardian - UK

Labour candidate in Scotland suspended over ‘racist’ social media activity

Constituent reported tweets liked and shared by Wilma Brown, who was to stand in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

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