Too many Labour MPs have spent their time searching for a unicorn rather than deciding what trade-offs to make. But you can't triangulate forever

It's not perfect—but the new NEF proposal to scrap the personal allowance and offer a £2,500 payment instead at least prioritises the poorest over middle-class earners. So will John McDonnell go...

This isn't "Corbynism without Corbyn" or Conservatism without the ERG. But it's not clear what it is, either

Voter backlash may not register unless and until Labour MPs fail to vote against a final Brexit deal

Somewheres vs anywheres, open vs closed—it all comes down to a debate over which voices are legitimate

Britain's housing market is broken. A mass council housebuilding project is the perfect solution

Are MPs who celebrate the opening of a food bank shameless hypocrites? Maybe—but that's not the full story

It's not only that neither party has a viable Brexit policy. Neither Labour or the Tories even have a unified Brexit platform to campaign on

Labour’s support for Hammond’s tax cuts sounds reasonable—at least, until you think what £900m could buy. But longer term, the party is boxing itself in

May will end not austerity, but middle-class austerity. The question is whether that's enough