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.
Bell has been associated with the coordination of policy developments for the Labour Party. He has received recognition across various factions within the party for his attention to detail.
Bell writes regularly about poverty and inequality in the United Kingdom, about the
North–South divide in England
In England, the term North–South divide refers to the cultural, economic, and social differences between:
*Southern England: the South East and South West, including Greater London and the East of England
*Northern England: the North East ...
and the
levelling-up policy of the British government. He described the
September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget
On 23 September 2022, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, delivered a Ministerial Statement entitled "The Growth Plan" to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Widely referred to in the media as a mini-budget (not being an off ...
as "the biggest unforced economic policy error of my lifetime."
In November 2022, Bell was appointed Honorary Professor at the
UCL Policy Lab.
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