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Rachel Reeves must break her fiscal rules. Better now than later

There is already arguably too little flexibility in the chancellor’s budget plan. Trump’s tariffs chaos makes a rethink inevitable

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2025

Controversial two-child benefit cap ‘plunges extra 30,000 children into poverty since Labour came to power’

Eight anniversary of the welfare limit, brought in by former Tory chancellor George Osborne as one of his austerity measures, this weekend

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2025

Is this the new austerity? What the numbers say

With the chancellor announcing around £4.8 billion of cuts to welfare spending over the next five years, Alicja Hagopian looks at whether the UK is returning to the austerity policies of ther 2010s

The Independent UK · Mar 27, 2025

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Reeves to take on unions in showdown over austerity Budget

A defiant chancellor will deliver her spring statement against a background of threats from trade unions and discontent from the Labour left

The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2025

What are Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and could they be changed?

What are the economic constraints that underpin the chancellor’s spring statement – and why does she see them as vital?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2025

‘Does it score?’ How the OBR became the key arbiter of the Treasury’s sums

Chancellor has very little headroom within her fiscal rules but is keen to keep Office for Budget Responsibility on side

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2025

These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too

The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025

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Rising bill for benefits has wreaked ‘terrible human cost’, says Keir Starmer

PM defends welfare cuts amid disquiet in Labour over plan charities say will push more disabled people into poverty

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025

Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people

Controversial plans to cut personal independence payment (Pip) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2025

Voices: Keir Starmer has been on a journey: From Corbynism to being ‘more Tory than Tony Blair’

COMMENT: And yet Labour MPs and members are remarkably quiet – that will not last, predicts John Rentoul

The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2025

Calls to close RAF Wethersfield asylum centre after high court rules vulnerable migrants put there unlawfully – as it happened

Campaigners welcome decision saying Home Office acted unlawfully

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2025

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls says plans to cut disability benefits ‘won’t work’

Influential Labour figure says cuts ‘not a Labour thing to do’, while George Osborne says when chancellor he resisted move as ‘step too far’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

What can Canada expect from its next PM? The Mark Carney I knew

In his seven years as Bank of England governor, Carney was charming and self-confident but had a volcanic temper

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025

Jeffrey Epstein used lobbyist to push for Jes Staley to be Barclays CEO, court told

‘Project Jes’ planned to target high-level figures including George Osborne and Mervyn King, emails suggest

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2025

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Evening Standard · Mar 4, 2025

James Stunt claimed diplomatic immunity and called black Met police officer 'Uncle Tom' in bizarre tirade

James Stunt was caught on camera launching a foul-mouthed tirade at a police officer after his arrest

The Fashion Central · Feb 9, 2025

Susanna Reid Nominated for Network Presenter of the Year at RTS Awards 2025

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid has shared an emotional announcement with her followers, revealing that she has been nominated for a prestigious award.

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2025

Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do?

Keir Starmer’s rhetoric against green campaigners appears to have taken a playground turn

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2025

Ministers must build on past Labour success in welfare savings

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The work and pensions secretary promises ‘big reforms’ in sickness benefits but must avoid cruel and counterproductive cuts

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The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind

We used to call this ‘trickle-down economics’, and we learned a long time ago that it is a myth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

Heathrow third runway: a saga of promises, protest and U-turns

With Reeves looking set to approve the contested expansion, here is a timeline of 21 years of changing policy

Evening Standard · Jan 23, 2025

Journalist denies stalking George Osborne and his wife

Lydia Suffield, 27, denied two counts of stalking involving serious alarm or distress at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday.

Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2025

Not case for triple lock ‘indefinitely’ minister who introduced it suggests

Former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Steve Webb served as pensions minister in the coalition government, thinks there is still a case for keeping it now.

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2025

So much for the dream of buying a family home

Letters: John Worrall, Ed Brierley and Will Wright respond to an article by Kirsty Major on the struggles many face to climb the property ladder

The Independent UK · Jan 7, 2025

Mark Carney: Failed to stop Brexit but hopes to save Canada from populism

The former Governor of the Bank of England is a frontrunner to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister

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