Torsten Bell
Torsten Bell is the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, an economic thinktank. He was appointed in 2015, having been Ed Miliband's head of policy and a Treasury civil servant who became special adviser to Alistair Darling.[1]
He has been described as possessing a sharp intellect, who co-ordinated policy developments for the Labour Party,[2] and admired across the party's factional divides for his ferocious attention to detail.[3]
He writes regularly about poverty and inequality in the United Kingdom,[4] about the North–South divide in England and the levelling-up policy of the British government.[5]
He described the September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget as "the biggest unforced economic policy error of my lifetime"[6] and this was picked up by the Financial Times[7] and numerous other papers.
In November 2022 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the UCL Policy Lab.[8]
References
- ^ "Ed Miliband's former head of policy appointed director of living standards think tank". Independent. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "The real clever cogs in Labour's machine". Financial Times. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "The making of Ed Miliband". Guardian. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ UK faces return to inequality of Thatcher years, says report The Guardian
- ^ "Britain's Unbridgeable Divide". The Atlantic. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "Policy errors set Chancellor on course to announce 'Osborne-level' spending cuts to balance the books". Resolution Foundation. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "Lasting effects of 'mini' Budget will be felt far beyond the trading floors". Financial Times. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ "Torsten Bell appointed Honorary Professor at the UCL Policy Lab". UCL. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
