Budget 2014 preview: Labour must change the language it uses to talk about...
by Rob MarchantToday Britain’s political focus turns, as it always does sooner or later, to the economy. It is the last Budget which will come in time to make much of a difference for the election, an...
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Class-based jibes are not an effective attack on Osborne’s feel-good budget...
by Jonathan Todd“Tories neck and neck with Labour,” reported The Sunday Times. Revisiting the questions that Uncut posed for George Osborne prior to the Autumn Statement allows us to assess how the...
View ArticleYes, it’s a reshuffle cliché, but George Osborne’s fingerprints are all over...
by Renie AnjehThe reshuffle is over. William Hague dramatically resigned as foreign secretary and has announced that he will retire from politics in 2015 after 26 years as an MP. Ken Clarke’s...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne hasn’t set a trap for Labour. He’s launched a boomerang
by Jonathan ToddGeorge Osborne thinks he is being clever, setting a trap for Labour. But Labour should vote against his proposal, expected to be contained in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement, for a new law...
View ArticleScrapping RDAs has made Osborne’s task harder
By Kevin MeagherAs the Tories’ main political strategist, George Osborne knows only too well that winning the next election means convincing people they’re getting better off, or soon will be. In the...
View ArticleMiliband only has himself to blame for Osborne’s reckless tax cuts
by Samuel DaleI laughed when I first heard yet slowly but surely the true horror of Ed Miliband’s gaffe has began to sink in.When our leader forgot to mention the deficit during his 80 minute...
View ArticleOsborne’s new austerity will force local government beyond breaking point
by Kieran QuinnDecember the 12th is one of my favourite days of the year: I attend the pensioner Christmas party in my ward. It’s an opportunity to mark the contribution that many of our senior...
View ArticleCarpe deficit: Miliband must seize his moment on spending cuts
by Samuel DaleIt’s working. On Sunday, Labour took a seven point lead in an Opinium and Observer poll with 36% to the Tories’ 29%.Sure, it could be a rogue poll, a one-off that misleads us all. Or...
View ArticleThe Uncuts: 2014 political awards
Politician of the year – Alex SalmondThe loss of the independence referendum was meant to be the end of the SNP. The Scottish public gave their verdict and the SNP’s raison d’etre was rejected. Cue...
View ArticleWhat has changed on the deficit since general election 2010?
by Jonathan ToddThis is the first of a series of pieces from Uncut on what has changed in respect of key political issues since the last general election. Looking over this timescale, we hope to...
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Budget 2015: The quiet moments matter
by Jonathan ToddBudgets are supposed to be big moments. The kind that determine general elections. But maybe they are decided by millions upon millions of quieter moments. When payslips are inspected,...
View ArticleRevealed: George Osborne’s secret £6.5bn tax raid on pensioners
by Samuel DaleBuried deep in this year’s dull Budget was a secret £6.5bn tax raid on pensioners and savers under the guise of radical reforms.George Osborne’s most significant policy announcement was...
View ArticleRevealed: Osborne’s next Budget
by Jonathan ToddOf course, we strain every Labour sinew to have the next Budget delivered by Ed Balls. Even if the worst happens and the next government is Conservative led, it may be that George...
View ArticleLabour’s decision to abolish non-doms is tactically astute but strategically...
by Samuel DaleThere are 116,000 individuals resident in the UK but not domiciled here.It means they pay no UK tax on their overseas income as their permanent home is judged to be in another...
View ArticleLabour’s manifesto launch went well but it’s tin ear on aspiration could...
by Samuel DaleLabour’s manifesto launch went well. The focus on tackling the deficit was right and Ed Miliband’s performance was assured.But on Tuesday it’s the turn of the Tories and how Labour...
View ArticleLabour urgently needs a new narrative on the economy
by Dan CookeOne thing we learned in the election campaign was that the younger Ed Miliband, while apparently much in demand, was a lousy date who “only wanted to talk about economics”. We also learned...
View ArticleLabour must support George Osborne’s budget surplus law
by Samuel DaleGeorge Osborne is fond of saying that in opposition you move to the centre while in government you can move the centre.Ed Miliband’s disastrous attempt to move the centre from opposition...
View ArticleIt’s the budget next week. Does Labour even have a policy on tax?
by Samuel DaleGeorge Osborne is putting the finishing touches to a Budget that will define our national politics for the next five years.I have previously written how Osborne is both shifting the...
View ArticleOsborne has laid the most obvious trap for Labour on tax credits. Will the...
by Jonathan ToddTen years since 7/7. Ten years since London won the Olympics. Ten years since Robin Cook was telling Labour party events that he was meeting people whose fortunes have been transformed...
View ArticleThe leadership contest is a total disaster for Labour
by Samuel DaleThe leadership election has been a disaster for Labour. It is painfully clear that we are not learning the right lessons from defeat.The spectacle of Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper,...
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