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Patrick Diamond

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Patrick Diamond is lecturer in public policy at Queen Mary, University of London, a former Labour adviser, and author of the new Policy Network pamphlet Labour's Economic Path to Power

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    double quotation markWhy Labour must adopt radical new tax policies – including on wealth and capital gains

    Colm Murphy and Patrick Diamond
    The Brown-era adage ‘Prudence with a purpose’ could be the way to obtain the economic stability that has eluded every UK government since the 2008 financial crisis, say Colm Murphy and Patrick Diamond

July 2015

  • UK Labour Party Leadership Hustings

    The risk for Labour is permanent irrelevance

    The party no longer knows what it is for or what it should be aiming to achieve. A new leader must tackle this head-on

June 2015

  • Helle Thorning-Schmidt, defeated Danish prime minister

    double quotation markEurope’s flagging centre-left must get to grips with the politics of national identity

    Patrick Diamond
    The Danish election shows that Europe’s social democrats need a vision of a cohesive society and nation-state to stop the march of the populist right

September 2014

  • Ed Miliband

    double quotation markPromising a new health tax is brave. Labour must show that courage

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: His strategists will advise caution. But if Ed Miliband is to win next year, a bold act to defend the NHS would rally voters

June 2014

  • Protestors of Occupy the London Stock Exchange Movement Set up Camp Outside St.Paul's Cathedral.

    double quotation markSocial democracy is on the ropes – it needs a new vision

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: Labour and other European centre-left parties have suffered at the polls, but an inclusive prosperity can return them to power


March 2014

  • Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and chancellor George Osborne.

    double quotation markWanted: a tax-and-spend policy that makes sense

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: Conservatives in the coalition like to both cut and give away, Labour is unwisely relying on growth – meanwhile, public services suffer

January 2014

  • Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband Delivers Speech On The Economy In London

    double quotation markLabour must wise up to what voters really want

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: There is a comforting but illusory assumption that the electorate is shifting irrevocably to the left. It's not just the coalition but the whole establishment that voters despise

December 2013

  • Autumn Statement On The Economy

    The panel
    double quotation markAutumn statement 2013: our writers' verdict

    Caroline Lucas, Patrick Diamond, Kwasi Kwarteng, Alvin Carpio, Ann Pettifor, John Cridland and Rhys Moore

    Caroline Lucas, Patrick Diamond, Kwasi Kwarteng, Alvin Carpio, Ann Pettifor, John Cridland and Rhys Moore: Our panellists give their reaction to George Osborne's autumn statement on the economy

November 2013

  • Lloyds Banking Group Misses Estimates

    double quotation markLabour's election success depends on its ability to prove its economic credibility

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: Ed Miliband has a golden opportunity to reclaim the politics of productivity and project the party's ability to create growth

September 2013

  • Ed Miliband and Francois Hollande

    double quotation markThree ways for Britain's Labour party and Europe's left to find their voice

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: The financial crash ought to have ushered in a period of social democratic dominance. It didn't. Here's how the left recovers

April 2013

  • Tony Blair

    double quotation markTony Blair is right: the post-1945 social democratic model has to change

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: Europe's centre-left parties, who dominated two distinct periods of postwar history, must reinvent themselves again

February 2013

  • John O'Farrell canvassing in Eastleigh

    double quotation markThe Eastleigh byelection: the lessons for Labour

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: Do southern voters know what one nation Labour is meant to be about? More policy grit would be welcome

November 2012

  • ed miliband cbi

    double quotation markFor Miliband, isolation from Europe would be a grave error

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: Many British voters would leave the European Union tomorrow – now it is up to Labour to make the case for staying

October 2012

  • Ed Miliband

    The panel
    double quotation markEd Miliband speech: panel verdict

    Len McCluskey, Gavin Kelly, Kate Pickett, Tim Montgomerie, Patrick Diamond

    Len McCluskey, Gavin Kelly, Kate Pickett, Tim Montgomerie and Patrick Diamond: How has Ed Miliband done in his speech to the Labour party conference? Our panellists give their views

September 2012

  • The Labour Party Hold Their Annual Party Conference - Day 5

    double quotation markLabour's economic policies: time for some strategic heavy lifting

    Patrick Diamond
    Patrick Diamond: As the government loses its grip, Labour must confront a fundamental question about the nature of British capitalism

April 2012

  • Francois Hollande, France's socialist party presidential candidate

    double quotation markIs Europe's left ready to govern?

    Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond
    Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond: If a new social democratic era is to be ushered in, the left must find new answers and strategies – or this chance will be wasted

March 2012

  • glassman

    double quotation markLabour's lost liberalism

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny: Now that Blue Labour has come unstuck, the party should reconnect with its orange heritage

September 2011

  • Ed milband speaks

    double quotation markEd Miliband must take his conference audience on a journey

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny
    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny: Miliband must forget the easy tribalism and show where Labour is going after the Blair-Brown era

June 2011

  • Portugal Jose Socrates

    double quotation markWhy the right won yet again

    Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond
    Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond: Following Portugal's election result, the depth of the crisis of European social democracy is clear

May 2011

  • Ed Balls Discusses The Dangers Of Drastic Cuts

    double quotation markLabour's woes are part of a wider social democratic malaise

    Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond
    Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond: Voters are scared by the crisis in the market economy but have little faith in the left's ability to stand up to vested interests
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