Topic: Economy
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Labour has a chance to turn Britain around with its first budget. Here’s how
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to slash billions from welfare and public spending on 30 October. But there is another way
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Starmer’s P&O headache is over — but there are choppy seas ahead
Labour is backing both workers’ rights and big business. Are they on a collision course?
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Labour is learning the hard way that governing is nothing like being in opposition
Keir Starmer’s attempts to sweep away dissent over winter fuel payments, high-value donations and Gaza haven’t worked
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No matter how it looks from the outside, one’s professional life is as fragile as a house of cards
If we are going to continue to create, we have to find other ways of valuing our art in a world that constantly delegitimises it
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We’ve not heard the last of Labour’s anti-austerity rebels
Dozens of Keir Starmer’s MPs abstained on a vote to scrap winter fuel payments for pensioners, exposing a rift in the party
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On the economy, Starmer has boxed himself in. That isn’t (just) the Tories’ fault
The prime minister is warning of hard times to come, but he can’t blame everything on his predecessors
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The economy is healthier than thought — but that’ll be news to many
As Labour and the Tories fight for control of the narrative, millions are still desperately in need
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The gloves are off as Labour and Tories clash over UK public finances
Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt blamed each other this week over the origins of a £22bn ‘black hole’ in the public budget. No matter who wins the argument, tax rises and public sector cuts seem inevitable
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Councils are turning off street lights to save money, but what does that mean for women’s safety?
Cash-strapped councils in England and Wales reducing street lighting at night sparking criticism from campaigners for women and minority groups’ safety
