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]

In September 2023, Bell was named as the tenth most powerful left wing figure in the UK by the New Statesman.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Ed Miliband's former head of policy appointed director of living standards think tank". Independent. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. ^ "The real clever cogs in Labour's machine". Financial Times. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. ^ "The making of Ed Miliband". Guardian. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  4. ^ UK faces return to inequality of Thatcher years, says report The Guardian
  5. ^ "Britain's Unbridgeable Divide". The Atlantic. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Torsten Bell appointed Honorary Professor at the UCL Policy Lab". UCL. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. ^ Statesman, New (2023-05-17). "The New Statesman's left power list". New Statesman. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
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