Torsten Bell
English economist
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]
Bell has been associated with the coordination of policy developments for the Labour Party. [2] He has received recognition across various factions within the party for his attention to detail. [3]
Bell 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]
In November 2022, Bell was appointed Honorary Professor at the UCL Policy Lab . [7]
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 .
- ↑ "Torsten Bell appointed Honorary Professor at the UCL Policy Lab" . UCL. 9 November 2022 . Retrieved 10 November 2022 .