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Party says it is committed to policies such as zero-hours ban after peer warned against ‘rushing’ changes

Despite being called continuity Hunt, the shadow chancellor has set out a proposal for meaningful change

Promising to reform the planning system, boost investment and improve skills is all very well, but the detail is missing, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

Shadow chancellor to use annual Mais lecture to set out plans to green the economy if party wins election

Few suspected at the time that the 1979 election was also a 1979 moment. Sure, the gravediggers were on strike and James Callaghan spoke of a "sea-change in politics" about which there was little anyone could do. But the Conservative manifesto of that year was far from unadulterated Thatcherism. Not…

Chancellor says date would allow a spending review to be carried out in time for next April

Shadow chancellor to outline plans to shake up department after Labour election victory

Letters: Peter Riddle says voters fear they will get Tory-lite policies and calls for honesty, while Carl Gardner says the party should make the UK attractive to struggling people, not big business. Plus letters from Martyn Taylor and Michael Meadowcroft

Well-intentioned moves are afoot to ‘overhaul the machinery of government’. But it’s the policies that are the problem