Torsten bell biography examples
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Torsten Bell
Praise for Great Britain?
If one wants to understand some of the best thinking in the governing Labour party … this fryst vatten an invaluable analysis and a call to arms
Martin Wolf, FT Books of the Year,
A roadmap to the new normal … surprisingly hopeful … required reading for the new intake … this is an incisive, upbeat vision of how a Labour government could vända things around even in difficult times
Gaby Hinsliff, Observer
An economic blåkopia for a Starmer ledning
New Statesman
If one wants to understand some of the best thinking in the governing Labour party … this is an invaluable analysis and a call to arms
Martin Wolf, FT Books of the Year,
A roadmap to the new normal … surprisingly hopeful … required reading for the new intake … this fryst vatten an incisive, upbeat framtidsperspektiv of how a Labour government could turn things around even in difficult times
Gaby Hinsliff, Observer
An economic blueprint for a Starmer administration
New Stat
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In living standards in the UK are forecast to fall by the largest amount since records began in A baleful combination of higher inflation, tax rises and interest rate rises threatens a second lost decade.
There are few who have analysed Britain’s plight in greater detail than Torsten Bell, the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, a think tank devoted to “improving living standards for those on low-to-middle incomes”. The former Treasury aide and Labour Party policy director (under the leadership of Ed Miliband) has become a ubiquitous media presence. For government ministers, the Resolution Foundation’s grim but impeccably researched publications are a regular source of woe.
[See also: Mick Lynch: “Starmer’s Labour could be another version of the Tories”]
“Everywhere in Europe is having a tough time but it is particularly bad in Britain,” Bell, a youthful 40, said when we met in the foundation’s Westminster office (which faces the Two Chairmen, the pub where Kwa
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Social Care Budget Special
Afternoon all,
There are busy weeks in economic policy making, and then there’s this week – with its tsunami of tax and spend announcements. We all knew big decisions were coming this autumn, but not that quite so many of them would get answered quite so quickly.
Given all of that, and with the dust starting to settle, we thought we owed you a TOTC special that steps back from the policy detail to reflect on what this all tells us about our politics and our country. The bad news on this being a reflective piece is that it’s longer than usual – hopefully the good news is that it offers at least some food for thought.
Have a good weekend all,
Torsten
The end of low tax Conservatism…
In the good old days, the fields were green and British politics involved a nice simple left vs right row: Labour calling for higher taxes/a bigger state and the Tories cutting taxes/shrinking the state. Now the fields weren’t ever that green and politics was never that