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Torsten Bell

Leading Labour MP, economist, and author
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"Most of all we want our--and Britain’s--future back"

Torsten Bell is a politician, author and economist  currently serving as Labour MP for Swansea West. He was the leader of the Resolution Foundation between 2015 and 2024, a charity working to raise the living standards of low-income households. Writing regularly on issues of poverty and inequality, Bell was a prominent opponent of the September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget and a critic of the levelling-up policy of the 2019 Conservative government.

Bell's latest book Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back is a Sunday Times bestseller, offering a clear-eyed portrait of the inequality and stagnant economic growth facing Britain--as well as an optimistic vision of economic growth.

"A dose of Torstenomics is the only thing that can give us hope"--Amol Rajan

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