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The Labour MP Torsten Bell is widely considered to be a rising star of the party. His recent book, Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back, provides a detailed description of what he sees as the key economic challenges facing the UK today and proposes a series of policy…

Public investment projects bring the short-term benefits of job creation, but their long-term effects are far more beneficial

Labour’s new brood includes an economist whose family fled from Liberia, Westminster insiders and a former soldier

The influential policy wonk and new MP for Swansea West sets out how the government can show it means business

The economist and Labour candidate for Swansea West offers a hopeful vision of the nation’s future – spurning leftwing utopianism as well as tackling 14 years of creeping decline

Chancellor seems to cherrypick data as he tries to outline how the Tories have got the country back on its feet

Economists say making the policy an election pledge could cost £40bn, which is badly needed for health, education and elsewhere

Household incomes on course to fall despite national insurance cuts in budget, says Resolution Foundation

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as economist warns OBR productivity forecasts are much too optimistic