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Labour MP: VAT charge on private schools could make elitist system more elitist

Rupa Huq argued the amount of VAT imposed on private schools should be based on turnover, to prevent smaller schools getting ‘caught in this trap’.

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2025

Investment in UK’s crumbling public services is pro-growth, says pensions minister

Exclusive: Torsten Bell defends Labour’s spending plans, saying ‘the status quo is economically and morally bankrupt’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2025

Earnings trigger for automatic enrolment into a pension will remain at £10,000

Freezing the thresholds provides stability but is a missed opportunity to drive higher contributions, wealth manager Quilter said.

Evening Standard · Jan 21, 2025

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Government confirms amount at which automatic enrolment into pension triggered

Freezing thresholds called a missed opportunity to drive higher contributions

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2025

Who is Torsten Bell? The new pensions minister pegged as Britain's future chancellor

From being one half of Britain’s most influential political twin duo, to his role in the infamous ‘EdStone’, Emma Loffhagen reports on Torsten Bell, the former think tank director promoted to pensions minister

Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025

I didn’t mind my unusual first name – until I found out it could cost me dearly

Research shows that those with easier to pronounce names are more successful in the workplace

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024

Torsten Bell is Labour’s rising star. He could now be on a collision course over its economic policy

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…

The Conversation · Oct 4, 2024

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If you build hospitals, roads and railways, growth will follow

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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024

Keir Starmer under fresh pressure to lift two-child benefit cap in October

The prime minister is facing renewed calls to scrap the austerity-era policy after a senior party figure suggested it would not be removed by chancellor Rachel Reeves in the statement this autumn

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2024

Labour will not scrap two-child benefit cap in October, senior figure warns

Senior Labour figure Torsten Bell predicted the measure would not be repealed in the 30 October statement

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2024

Labour will fail in government if it does not reduce inequality, says new MP

Torsten Bell’s comments come as party leadership has become embroiled in a row over the two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2024

Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain

Opposition in wealthier areas is likely and overcoming it is essential, says Resolution Foundation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2024

Big brains and glittering careers: five fresh Labour MPs to watch

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024

Great Britain? by Torsten Bell – why Labour must move fast and fix things

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2024

Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell review – a roadmap to the new normal

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

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2024

How accurate are Jeremy Hunt’s claims about the UK economy?

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

Sunak warned unfunded axing of national insurance would harm services

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

UK to have first parliament in modern history with fall in living standards, says thinktank

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

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The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

UK ‘fiscally offside’ by up to £60bn, Citi fears; house prices rise again – as it happened

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

Tories have plenty of weak spots – and dislike years that end in four

Labour will be going on the attack, mindful of having come to power in 1924, 1964 and 1974

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2023

Britain has been in a 15-year economic slump. This is our route out of it

Ours is the most unequal major economy in Europe, with poorer workers losing out most, says Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2023

Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election

Labour leader to warn that Britain is in worst economic state for over 50 years and spending will need to be constrained

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2023

Jeremy Hunt denies lying about ‘record tax cuts’ claim

Chancellor speaks out after BBC interviewer tells him Tory advert is ‘fundamentally dishonest’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2023

UK households to be £1,900 poorer by end of this parliament, say economists

Warning comes after Resolution Foundation finds autumn statement favours richest 20% of earners

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2023

Hunt’s tax cuts based on ‘implausible’ public spending squeeze – think tanks

Economists said the Chancellor’s tax reductions will not prevent this from being the ‘biggest tax-raising’ parliament in modern times.

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