Inside Politics

Thursday, 10 July, 2025

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Wednesday, 9 July, 2025

UK government spending

Is the UK’s triple lock pension the carousel that won’t stop?

Difficulty of curbing growing state spending on a policy tied to broader problem of ageism

Tuesday, 8 July, 2025

UK tax

Labour’s taxes on wealthy are already doing more harm than good

Party has boxed itself in and is gaining none of the political credit for introducing non-dom changes

Monday, 7 July, 2025

Labour party UK

Labour drift won’t solve UK’s two-decade sluggishness

Party never explained why Tories failed to restore growth — now it struggles to match policies with hard fiscal reality

Friday, 4 July, 2025

UK politics

Breakthrough barriers for UK’s populist left

Zarah Sultana’s surprise declaration she will co-lead new party suggests schismatic tendencies facing these groups

Thursday, 3 July, 2025

Labour party UK

Why Starmer and Reeves got this one wrong

Blaming the parliamentary party for poor discipline misses the bigger problem of the bill’s lack of logic

Wednesday, 2 July, 2025

National Health Service

UK benefits bill will keep rising without NHS reform

Ministers want to get the sick into work, but without proper support for chronic illness the costs will increase elsewhere

Tuesday, 1 July, 2025

UK welfare reform

Labour may avoid defeat but it has lost the policy argument

Concessions spare political pain, though case for ‘reform’ was about meeting a fiscal rule rather than efficiency

Monday, 30 June, 2025

UK labour productivity

Denser, smarter cities will boost UK productivity

Britain has skilled workers to compete with peers but not the urban infrastructure to capitalise on agglomeration benefits

Friday, 27 June, 2025

UK welfare reform

Welfare U-turn permanently alters Labour’s playbook

Keir Starmer’s retreat symbolises end of high-handed forceful approach to managing MPs

Thursday, 26 June, 2025

Labour party UK

Labour’s blame game ignores what’s really missing at the top

Fractiousness among MPs stems from the party’s original sin in making irreconcilable promises

Wednesday, 25 June, 2025

UK government spending

Starmer’s malfunctioning political machine

Dissent against leadership is partly a result of poor policy rationale, partly poor MP management

Tuesday, 24 June, 2025

Labour party UK

Labour’s welfare revolt shows politics always catches up with policy

Benefits system must get better at reducing poverty but these spending cuts will not solve the problem

Monday, 23 June, 2025

Politics

Keir Starmer’s balancing act on Iran risks political pain at home

A more dangerous world is increasing the sense that Britain, including its leaders, is being shaped by uncontrollable forces

Friday, 20 June, 2025

Global migration

The new alarming Tory language on Britishness

By redefining ‘native’ to exclude mixed-ethnicity Britons, the Conservatives shift towards a racial purity test once unthinkable

Thursday, 19 June, 2025

Labour party UK

Absence of leadership forces Labour to play to electorate

Only a wider governing philosophy will enable Keir Starmer’s party to see off Reform UK threat

Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

Human rights

Deportation case tests Labour’s appetite for ECHR reform

Inability to extradite fugitives wanted for murder and child rape prompts MPs to call for reinterpretation of human rights

Tuesday, 17 June, 2025

UK politics

Labour’s policies on non-doms and welfare risk pleasing no one

Ending non-dom regime started life as a political attack line but is now clashing with the reality of governing

Monday, 16 June, 2025

UK Government

This is not how you should legislate assisted dying reform

Bill likely to pass into law but such a major change to society and the state’s role merits government being explicit author

Friday, 13 June, 2025

Artificial intelligence

Whitehall AI tool could help get UK building faster and smarter

Starmer unveiled Extract that can speed up decisions and bring historic paperwork into digital age

Thursday, 12 June, 2025

UK government spending

Labour bets big on an infrastructure-led recovery

While the party shows largesse on capital spending, it pencils in pretty tight settlements for public services

Wednesday, 11 June, 2025

UK government spending

Labour’s growth strategy comes down to difficult decisions on tax

If and when expected state spending cuts bite, how quickly might Labour have to retreat?

Tuesday, 10 June, 2025

Labour party UK

Winter fuel climbdown exposes big problem plaguing UK politics

Neither Labour nor the opposition seem ready to adapt welfare system to our changing demographics

Monday, 9 June, 2025

UK welfare reform

Political will is missing link in Labour’s child poverty promise

Gains from scrapping two-child benefit limit and reforming tax on buying shares would outweigh any electoral hit

Friday, 6 June, 2025

UK politics

Industry-wide errors puzzle British pollsters

Statisticians are still trying to work out why Labour’s general election victory was so overestimated