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Liam Byrne MP
Oct 8, 2024
The Reform vote and inequality
This weekend I published my new analysis of the Reform vote and the relationship between the regions and places that voted for Reform and...


Liam Byrne MP
Oct 5, 2024
We can’t defeat populism without fixing inequality – Byrne
Sunday 6th October 2024, FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION New analysis of election data reveals Reform UK did best in Britain’s ‘left behind’...

Liam Byrne MP
Oct 3, 2024
How to trade with China?
This was always going to be a difficult moment. As the political scientist Graham Allison once neatly explained, throughout history the...


Liam Byrne MP
Sep 5, 2022
‘We have a shared duty to help rebuild Ukraine’
Remarks to Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Prague, 5 September 2022 Chairman, thanks so much...


Liam Byrne MP
Jul 7, 2022
Our Bretton Woods institutions are key to debt diplomacy
For some years now, we have been having a debate in this country and among our allies about the influence of China and this vexed,...


Liam Byrne MP
Jul 3, 2022
Winning the Information Battlespace: An Agenda for Democrats
Remarks to OECD Parliamentary Network, Saeima of the Republic of Latvia Thanks you much, Mr. Chairman for that kind introduction. It’s...


Liam Byrne MP
Jun 30, 2022
Johnson’s Looming Trade War
Boris Johnson’s law breaking is about to cost us a fortune Liam Byrne, Tom Tugendhat and Vice President Sefcovic at the Berlaymont As...


Liam Byrne MP
Jun 27, 2022
How to improve the National Security Bill in just one clause
The National Security Bill got a fairly warm welcome when it came to second reading. But it’s missing one crucial component: measures to...


Liam Byrne MP
Mar 4, 2022
The Kanonosphere vs the Kleptosphere: The Post Invasion Equation
As the Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine this week, we had a debate in Parliament about the shape of things to come. Here’s my speech for...


Liam Byrne MP
Mar 2, 2022
Frozen but enjoyed? A quick guide to asset freezing
An Oligarch’s yacht sets sail Why isn’t Britain actually seizing the yachts, jets, mansions – or football clubs of Putin’s mates, when EU...


Liam Byrne MP
Feb 25, 2022
Russian gas and gravy trains
Graphic: The Daily Telegraph How to kick our dependence on both Quite rightly there’s a debate about how we kick European dependence on...


Liam Byrne MP
Feb 9, 2022
The dream of peace in the Balkans cauldron
Fitzroy Maclean, the great soldier-diplomat who organised supplies for Marshal Tito, once observed that the many diverse people of former...


Liam Byrne MP
Feb 3, 2022
The dream of peace in the Balkans cauldron
Fitzroy Maclean, the great soldier-diplomat who organised supplies for Marshal Tito, once observed that the many diverse people of former...


Liam Byrne MP
Jan 25, 2022
The ‘grey wall’ is still the biggest barrier to a Labour government
While Boris Johnson disgraces his office, Keir Starmer has distinguished himself with progress made and poll leads. But one key challenge...


Liam Byrne MP
Nov 27, 2021
Rising Prices, Failing Tories
The nice people at Tortoise invited me on to chat about ‘the prospects for inflation’ this week. Pulling together the research and...


Liam Byrne MP
Oct 4, 2021
REVEALED: the UK’S 11,000 shell companies no-one knows who owns.
Hats off to the #PandoraPapers team that’s exposed the sheer scale of the tax avoidance by 35 current and former global leaders –...


Liam Byrne MP
Sep 3, 2021
Grand Strategy on the Silk Road?
As the smoke clears on our disastrous retreat from Kabul, the Spectator’s James Forsyth rightly points in the Times, at the hole where...


Liam Byrne MP
Jun 16, 2021
Jab the World? The PM’s statement on G7 and NATO
After every major summit the Prime Minister comes back the Commons to update us and take questions. As you might, many of us zeroed in on...
Liam Byrne MP
Sep 6, 2009
Osborne detached on Marr
George Osborne today did a good impression on the Marr show, of being completely detached from the economic realities of the moment. On...
Liam Byrne MP
Aug 6, 2009
This week’s economic news
This week we’ve seen one of the key forward looking indicators of business confidence – the purchasing managers index for Britain’s...








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