Articles - Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson MP: 10 things to look for in Wednesday’s speech from the Chancellor

Rishi Sunak will deliver a statement in the Commons on Wednesday. Detail has been thin on the ground, save for some briefing to the newspapers about apprenticeships and possible VAT cuts. But if Boris Johnson’s damp squib of a speech last week is anything to go by, it is unlikely…

Bridget Phillipson MP writes for Daily Mirror on tech firm tax avoidance

With high streets closed for several months, and so many of us on furlough, the big tech companies have been raking it in. These companies connect people to each other, and to things they want to watch and buy. They are making big profits but paying very little tax. That’s…

Bridget Phillipson MP: If the government’s response to lockdown is any indication, this looming employment crisis will be devastating

Easing lockdown this week is an important step towards getting the economy moving again. But there are still significant challenges ahead for Britain’s economy as well as for our health. Official figures show that without decisive government action, Britain could face unemployment on a scale not seen for decades. We…

Bridget Phillipson MP: The Government is letting vulnerable families slip by the wayside

Coronavirus is having an impact on everyone’s lives, but it’s clearly affecting the communities and groups that have suffered most from the last decade of Tory government. I’m particularly worried about the impact this crisis is having on our region. Before COVID-19 hit, almost a quarter of children in the…

Bridget Phillipson MP: We must plan now to avoid a furlough cliff edge

In just over a month, 6.3 million workers have been placed on furlough. With the TUC, CBI, FSB and many others, Labour supported the creation of the Job Retention Scheme. It has staved off the immediate threat of mass unemployment, and protected families’ incomes at this time of national crisis.…

Bridget Phillipson MP writes for Renewal

Getting the basics right This article was written in February 2020, and featured in Renewal in April 2020. The original article can be found here. Labour needs to win big in 2024. It’s time for the party to re-learn the art of professional leadership and communication, and to accept the…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Using the State for Change: Towards an Effective Labour Government

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the government is making a complete mess of Brexit, but behind that observation lie two others, which for now, go largely unremarked while Brexit consumes the attention of Westminster and Whitehall. The first is that the government is making a complete mess of…

Bridget Phillipson MP: For Labour, Rishi Sunak’s Budget is an opportunity – but also a danger

Some of the commentary on the Budget suggests that had Labour won the general election, a new chancellor would have presented a similar financial and economic package: focusing infrastructure spending on roads, neglecting to fix Universal Credit, failing to lift working people out of poverty and deprioritising investment in green technologies. Counterfactuals…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour needs to learn from the winners, not repeat a losing formula

I suspect it will be months before we have anything more than a fairly broadbrush understanding of what happened in last week’s election, and while the results did not surprise me, the points I really want to make are about the immediate pitfalls to avoid rather than the longer term…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour loves nostalgia. But we succeed when our politics is about the future

We love nostalgia in the Labour Party. We pepper our politics with references to people in office seventy years ago. Sometimes we seem to drench our party political broadcasts in a sense of how things were better in the past, an implicit promise that our future will be a recapturing…

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