Archive: Capitalism

Miliband wants 'patriotic' manufacturing approach

Politicians should be more patriotic when it comes to manufacturing, Ed Miliband argues today

Politicians should patriotically support British manufacturing even if it means backing companies based overseas, Ed Miliband will say later.

Miliband 'patriotism' speech in full

'Counsel of despair': Miliband offers gloomy new year's message

Factories hit hardest by UK's four-year slump

Cameron rejects 'snobby' anti-capitalists

Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral: Just snobs, according to Cameron

David Cameron is turning up his nose at anti-business sentiment today in a speech attacking the "snobbery" of those suspicious of capitalism.

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Cameron's chocolate orange 'failure'

Cameron famously hit out at WHSmith's chocolate orange discounting in 2006

Ed Miliband has hit upon an improbable chink in David Cameron's political armour: the chocolate orange.

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Comment: What difference do the Occupy protests make?

Dr Matthew Ashton is a politics lecturer at Nottingham Trent University

The left has been comprehensively outmanoeuvred in Britain over the last 30 years. They need to reconsider their tactics.

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The fight for capitalism: Miliband and Cameron go head-to-head

The Occupy movement has brought global discomfort with modern capitalism to mainstream attention.

David Cameron moved on to political ground claimed by Ed Miliband today, with a speech promising a more 'moral' capitalism.

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Comment: We'll need a braver politician than Cameron to address capitalism's failure

Matthew Ashton: 'We need proper regulation and we need this regulation to be enforced.'

Cameron's tinkering won't save us from another recession.

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Cameron's 'moral capitalism' speech in full

David Cameron: 'We won’t build a better economy by turning our back on the free market'

Read David Cameron's speech on 'moral capitalism' in full on politics.co.uk.

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Nick Clegg's City speech in full

Nick Clegg answers questions after his speech to the City

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg delivered a speech to a City audience at Mansion House this morning, in which he proposed the creation of a 'John Lewis economy'. Here's the text in full:

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Clegg tries to reclaim capitalism debate with 'liberal' solution

Nick Clegg tried to reclaim the debate over the future of British capitalism this morning, with a demand for workers to be better rewarded when their companies do well.

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