‘Labour will surpass your expectations’: the leftwing thinktank boss standing on Starmer’s agenda

Miatta Fahnbulleh is running for parliament – and, as a black female economist, hopes to broaden parliament’s outlook on ‘the rules of the game’Miatta Fahnbulleh has been talking about economic transformation for as long as she can remember. After she and her family fled civil war in Liberia as a child, the main topics of conversation around the breakfast table in London were politics and economics.“When other people were talking about EastEnders, we were on about c