George Eaton
@georgeeaton.bsky.social
Senior Editor (Politics), New Statesman
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Interviewed Zack Polanski on a Green Budget:
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Interviewed Zack Polanski on a Green Budget:
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
The Greens are now winning *20%* of Labour’s 2024 voters, far ahead of the Lib Dems on 11% and Reform on 10%. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Greens are now winning *20%* of Labour’s 2024 voters, far ahead of the Lib Dems on 11% and Reform on 10%. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Interviewed Zack Polanski on a Green Budget:
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
What would Zack Polanski do?
The Green Party leader on wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Interviewed Zack Polanski on a Green Budget:
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Wealth tax of 1% on £10m+ and 2% on £1bn+.
- Open to broad-based tax rises once inequality has been reduced.
- His MMT-style fiscal rule: “Inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and resources that we have”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Reeves emphasised at the PLP tonight that the Budget would be redistributive.
As I’ve reported, No 10/No 11 are happy for this to be seen as a left turn. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
As I’ve reported, No 10/No 11 are happy for this to be seen as a left turn. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Rachel Reeves’s left turn
Why the Chancellor is embracing higher taxes and higher spending.
www.newstatesman.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reeves emphasised at the PLP tonight that the Budget would be redistributive.
As I’ve reported, No 10/No 11 are happy for this to be seen as a left turn. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
As I’ve reported, No 10/No 11 are happy for this to be seen as a left turn. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
As I noted last month, Britain has become a country of high taxes for the few and low taxes for the many. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
If I asked you which country has the most progressive tax system in the developed world — where high earners hand over an especially large share of their income relative to the average worker — what would your answer be?
The answer is in fact Britain. on.ft.com/4a5jIFc
The answer is in fact Britain. on.ft.com/4a5jIFc
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As I noted last month, Britain has become a country of high taxes for the few and low taxes for the many. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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I'm thrilled to announce that Talk Data to Me now has a podcast.
My first guest is Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics at Kings, who talked to me about recent problems with UK economic data & budget challenges for the Chancellor.
Available to listen now 🔊
open.spotify.com/episode/6Txz...
My first guest is Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics at Kings, who talked to me about recent problems with UK economic data & budget challenges for the Chancellor.
Available to listen now 🔊
open.spotify.com/episode/6Txz...
Are we flying blind on the economy? with Jonathan Portes
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that Talk Data to Me now has a podcast.
My first guest is Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics at Kings, who talked to me about recent problems with UK economic data & budget challenges for the Chancellor.
Available to listen now 🔊
open.spotify.com/episode/6Txz...
My first guest is Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics at Kings, who talked to me about recent problems with UK economic data & budget challenges for the Chancellor.
Available to listen now 🔊
open.spotify.com/episode/6Txz...
Others view Miliband as potential Chancellor to Rayner/Burnham or another soft-left leader.
Labour MP close to Miliband told me in Sept: “It now feels much more likely”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Miliband as next PM continues to be really under-priced
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Others view Miliband as potential Chancellor to Rayner/Burnham or another soft-left leader.
Labour MP close to Miliband told me in Sept: “It now feels much more likely”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Miliband as next PM continues to be really under-priced
Nov 18th - Nov 20th polling of Labour members on hypothetical leader contests if Starmer stood
Current leader loses by 26%, ties, and wins by 16-18% & even 34%
Starmer does best (+34) 50-16 against his new Home Secretary in a poll held as her asylum reforms were leading the news on Nov 17th
Current leader loses by 26%, ties, and wins by 16-18% & even 34%
Starmer does best (+34) 50-16 against his new Home Secretary in a poll held as her asylum reforms were leading the news on Nov 17th
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Labour MP close to Miliband told me in Sept: “It now feels much more likely”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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Excl: Tom Watson warns Keir Starmer “ignore your MPs at your peril” and says Labour’s “lawless” briefing wars are worse than the Blair-Brown years. www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
Tom Watson: “Ignore your MPs at your peril”
The former Labour deputy leader on what Keir Starmer must do to survive
www.newstatesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Excl: Tom Watson warns Keir Starmer “ignore your MPs at your peril” and says Labour’s “lawless” briefing wars are worse than the Blair-Brown years. www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
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Can Rachel Reeves do more than muddle through?
To Labour critics, the Budget already resembles a missed opportunity.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
To Labour critics, the Budget already resembles a missed opportunity.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Can Rachel Reeves do more than muddle through?
To Labour critics, the Budget already resembles a missed opportunity
www.newstatesman.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Can Rachel Reeves do more than muddle through?
To Labour critics, the Budget already resembles a missed opportunity.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
To Labour critics, the Budget already resembles a missed opportunity.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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“There are several potential future leaders out there and [Angela Rayner] is clearly one of them.”
Tom Watson speaks to @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Tom Watson speaks to @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Tom Watson: “Ignore your MPs at your peril”
The former Labour deputy leader on what Keir Starmer must do to survive
www.newstatesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“There are several potential future leaders out there and [Angela Rayner] is clearly one of them.”
Tom Watson speaks to @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Tom Watson speaks to @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Excl: Tom Watson warns Keir Starmer “ignore your MPs at your peril” and says Labour’s “lawless” briefing wars are worse than the Blair-Brown years. www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
Tom Watson: “Ignore your MPs at your peril”
The former Labour deputy leader on what Keir Starmer must do to survive
www.newstatesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Excl: Tom Watson warns Keir Starmer “ignore your MPs at your peril” and says Labour’s “lawless” briefing wars are worse than the Blair-Brown years. www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
Awful news that Mani has died. One of the most distinctive and gifted bassists of his era. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63
Ian Brown and Tim Burgess were among those to pay tribute to Mani, whose death was announced by his brother and nephew
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Awful news that Mani has died. One of the most distinctive and gifted bassists of his era. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Awful news that Mani has died. One of the most distinctive and gifted bassists of his era. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63
Ian Brown and Tim Burgess were among those to pay tribute to Mani, whose death was announced by his brother and nephew
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Awful news that Mani has died. One of the most distinctive and gifted bassists of his era. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Clive Lewis's offer to Andy Burnham is one of many signs that Labour's shadow leadership contest has intensified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
The Labour left’s musical chairs
Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.
www.newstatesman.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Clive Lewis's offer to Andy Burnham is one of many signs that Labour's shadow leadership contest has intensified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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The Labour left’s musical chairs: Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
The Labour left’s musical chairs
Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.
www.newstatesman.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Labour left’s musical chairs: Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Clive Lewis's offer to Andy Burnham is one of many signs that Labour's shadow leadership contest has intensified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
The Labour left’s musical chairs
Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.
www.newstatesman.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Clive Lewis's offer to Andy Burnham is one of many signs that Labour's shadow leadership contest has intensified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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On the right’s fiscal nimbys – for Reform and the Tories spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
The right’s fiscal nimbys
For Reform and the Tories, spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters.
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
On the right’s fiscal nimbys – for Reform and the Tories spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
On the right’s fiscal nimbys – for Reform and the Tories spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
The right’s fiscal nimbys
For Reform and the Tories, spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters.
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
On the right’s fiscal nimbys – for Reform and the Tories spending cuts are always for people other than their own voters. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
I wrote a year ago that the Greens were underperforming against an unpopular Labour govt.
Turns out that they really were. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Turns out that they really were. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I wrote a year ago that the Greens were underperforming against an unpopular Labour govt.
Turns out that they really were. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Turns out that they really were. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Net migration now estimated to have fallen from 944,000 to 345,000 in Dec ‘24.
Some projections even suggest David Cameron’s old target of “tens of thousands” could be met. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
Some projections even suggest David Cameron’s old target of “tens of thousands” could be met. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Net migration now estimated to have fallen from 944,000 to 345,000 in Dec ‘24.
Some projections even suggest David Cameron’s old target of “tens of thousands” could be met. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
Some projections even suggest David Cameron’s old target of “tens of thousands” could be met. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
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Poor James Murray up now in the House of Commons having to answer questions about Budget leaks - which MPs intolerably describe as "briefings" when they are not "briefings" but bloody hard work by journalists to get stories.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Poor James Murray up now in the House of Commons having to answer questions about Budget leaks - which MPs intolerably describe as "briefings" when they are not "briefings" but bloody hard work by journalists to get stories.
Starmer’s entirely overshadowed plan to scrap the two-child benefit cap yet another example of “all pain, no gain”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Keir Starmer hints he could scrap two-child benefit cap in Budget
The prime minister said his government will be ‘taking a number of measures’ to tackle child poverty
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Starmer’s entirely overshadowed plan to scrap the two-child benefit cap yet another example of “all pain, no gain”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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What’s behind Labour’s income tax U-turn?
Insiders fear that the government has opted for “all pain, no gain” by dropping a plan to break its manifesto
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Insiders fear that the government has opted for “all pain, no gain” by dropping a plan to break its manifesto
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
What’s behind Labour’s income tax U-turn?
Insiders fear that the government has opted for “all pain, no gain” by dropping a plan to break its manifesto
www.newstatesman.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What’s behind Labour’s income tax U-turn?
Insiders fear that the government has opted for “all pain, no gain” by dropping a plan to break its manifesto
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Insiders fear that the government has opted for “all pain, no gain” by dropping a plan to break its manifesto
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social