Caution, not grand plans, is needed if Labour is to build wealth in Britain | Philip Inman

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will need skill and stealth to make progress amid financial and institutional adversity

How to reverse austerity? Scrap some of the tax-relief schemes worth 204bn

Everyone wants the Labour leadership to be more honest with the electorate about how it will pay for policies designed to drive growth, tackle the climate crisis and improve living standards.

Without a jolt to the economy from tens of billions of pounds of extra spending, they argue, growth will remain sloth-like, only inching ahead, and the Labour project will be doomed.