Topic summary
Economic Advisory Committee
- Leadership
- 2015 election
- Shadow Cabinet
- 2016 re-election
- Antisemitism in the Labour Party
- Corbynmania
- Economic Advisory Committee
- 2016 local elections
- 2017 local elections
- 2017 general election
- 2018 local elections
- 2019 local elections
- 2019 European elections
- 2019 general election
- Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
- Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup
- Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie
- Jeremy Corbyn: Accidental Hero
- Dangerous Hero
The British Labour Party'sEconomic Advisory Committee was in 2015–16 a group of economists, described as experts on globalisation, inequality and innovation, convened by Shadow ChancellorJohn McDonnell and reporting to Labour Party LeaderJeremy Corbyn, announced on 27 September 2015 at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, and intended to meet on a quarterly basis to discuss and develop ideas around the official economic strategy to be advocated by the Labour Party, but not to set policy. It has been described as a way to give the Shadow Chancellor defensive cover.
In June 2016 Piketty and Blanchflower left, and the remaining members of the Economic Advisory Committee announced they had decided to postpone any further meetings, in the wake of the of the Shadow Cabinet in protest over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. Wren-Lewis cites the Labour leadership's acquiescence of Brexit as his reason for resigning from the Committee.