Tag: Austerity

In a gaffe-prone conference speech, Keir Starmer called for the return of "sausages" from Gaza and suggested he had to cut pensioners' winter fuel allowance or "risk" a Liz Truss-style market meltdown.

Rachel Reeves is wrong – there was no austerity, says Charlotte Gill. Just look at these 10 ridiculous things taxpayers have been charged for.

Zadie Smith looks back with glazed eyes on the good old days of Blair, and welcomes the likely dawn of a new Labour era. Prof James Alexander takes the writer to task for her simplistic view of the world.