3 articles and a video by James Meadway

Letter to PM and Chancellor from leading think tanks and economists with ideas for the 2021 budget

In this article in Open Democracy on 7th October 2021, Laurie Macfarlane exposes how the Boris Johnson claim that high wages will result from restrictions in immigration is an economic fantasy

Annette Dittert calls for Labour to provide opposition to Brexit

And another look at the economics of immigration with Jonathan Portes

PEF hosted two meetings at the Labour Party Conference 2021 in Brighton – Sunday 28th September at the fringe at the Metropole Hotel and Tuesday 30th September at the Big Tent at the World Transformed

Latest articles by PEF Director James Meadway in the New Statesman

Malcom Sawyer considers the economic policies pursued in the UK in response to the coronavirus pandemic in the first twelve months of the crisis from February 2020 to January 2021.

“Whatever the patriotic gloss and 1960s-sounding slogan, the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Buy British policy announcement is a genuinely smart response to a newly emerging economic consensus. “

UK GDP has fallen – yet house prices have soared. Even a small rise in interest rates could hurt the economy, writes PEF Council member Josh Ryan-Collins in the Guardian

PEF Council member Josh Ryan-Collins writing in the Guardian on 14 6 21 on the virtues of CBDC

Ed Miliband offers bold policy options for Labour – all supported by PEF

Click here to see the recording

PEF Council member Stephany Griffiths-Jones, Ilmi Granoff and Douglass Sims make the case for a new public investment institution to help meet the overwhelming challenge of climate change. The Hill, 22.4.2021

40 years of neoliberalism have failed to provide prosperity or stability to the UK economy. Instead it has led to low growth, turbulence, grotesque inequality , poverty and ill health for millions . This is the outcome of damaging economic polices driven by free market dogma, rentier capitalism and ideology. It’s time for a change.

James Meadway has been appointed the Director of the Progressive of Economy Forum with immediate effect.

Andy considers the latest theories about Labour’s political strategy from John Cruddas and Claire Ainsley and argues that lessons must be learned as to why Labour gained so many votes in 2017

PEF Council member Simon shows just how bad the Conservatives are at running the economy , despite the common belief otherwise

The Independent

The Observer

“…..we will seize the opportunities presented to create an economy based on high skills and high standards.

That means switching from a model of short-term returns to one that puts long-term shared security, justice, and economic and social prosperity at the heart of decision-making “