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The UK’s shortest-serving PM was among nine former MPs who claimed back the cost of supporting staff with CV training through expenses

Labour’s panicked reaction to economic turbulence is to promise ‘ruthless’ cuts. That’s not an intelligent answer, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

COMMENT: The former chancellor says Rachel Reeves’s budget ‘black hole’ is fiction. John Rentoul examines whether voters will listen

Institute for Fiscal Studies says increasing borrowing to fund investment ‘right thing to do’

Chancellor poked fun at Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch and Kwasi Kwarteng in a budget tradition

Tory former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has written to the UK’s top civil servant about an Office for Budget Responsibility review of his spending plans.

As Rachel Reeves prepares to unveil her measures, we look at how five of her predecessors broke the mould

What is the opposite of a mini-Budget? A maxi-Budget? Whatever it is, that is what the chancellor is preparing to deliver next Wednesday. But the biggest difference between Rachel Reeves and Kwasi Kwarteng is not substance per se. Indeed, Reeves also intends to borrow more in order to boost growth,…

John Healey says Labour ‘getting on with job’ after chief of staff quit less than 100 days into new government