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The Guardian view on Britain’s economy: to profit politically a recovery must be felt in people’s pockets

Editorial: The chancellor can point to growth and lower inflation, but weak job data, flat living standards and uncertain productivity are no reason to cheer

The Guardian - UK

AstraZeneca’s stock market exit would be devastating blow, warns ex-chancellor

The UK is ‘a hostile environment’ for innovative, high-tech growth companies, the Government has been told.

Evening Standard

Michael Burns obituary

Other lives: Cricket historian who wrote Seven Summers, an account of Surrey’s seven consecutive county championship triumphs

The Guardian - UK

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OPINION - An economy making unhappy noises, major own goals... Rachel Reeves needs a vibe shift

A former Health Secretary once told me, with an understandable degree of despair, about the frustrations of being in ultimate charge of the NHS. He had all the policy levers at his disposal in his office, but however many he pushed, or pulled, nothing he did seemed to make any…

Evening Standard

Big, bold and risky, but Rachel Reeves has still presented a continuity budget

In the long line of UK government budgets, this first one from Labour in 14 years will be remembered as one of the more significant. Perhaps not like those of Geoffrey Howe in 1981, which controversially cut spending in the middle of a recession, or Hugh Dalton in 1946, which…

The Conversation

From tax cuts to breaking the economy: five UK budgets that made a difference

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

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves’s first budget offers a chance to break out of the doom loop. Here’s how she should do it

It’s a tall order but Labour has a chance to improve people’s lives in both the short and long term, says economics and public policy professor Jonathan Portes

The Guardian - UK

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Tory ‘economic competence’ led Britain to Black Wednesday. Never forget

The anniversary of Norman Lamont’s failure is a timely reminder to Labour not to have its fiscal agenda set by the opposition

The Guardian - UK

Toxic budgets: the UK chancellors who left a poisonous legacy

Before an election, chancellors often try to woo voters with tax cuts that leave the incoming government in a hole. Here are six ‘poison pill’ speeches

The Guardian - UK

This week’s recession call will be about politics. To the public, the economy’s grim either way

City Comment: For Sunak and Hunt, an official declaration of recession, however shallow, is yet another dent to their claims on the economy

Evening Standard

Ex-chancellor Norman Lamont says Sunak must ignore calls to ditch inheritance tax

Tory grandee doesn’t ‘buy’ MPs’ argument that tax on inherited wealth is widely hated

The Independent UK

It’s Brexit that cranks up inflation. Don’t just blame the Bank

Policymakers are too quick to slow the economy and risk recession when the solution is to rejoin the EU

The Guardian - UK

Tory peer warns ‘passing buck’ on British IS suspects risks terrorist breeding ground

Revoking nationality of Shamima Begum is form of capital punishment, government told

The Independent UK

‘Passing buck’ on British IS suspects risks terrorist breeding ground – Lamont

Revoking the nationality of Shamima Begum is a form of capital punishment, leaving her as ‘the breathing dead’, the Government was told.

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PFI at 30: it's hard to say anything positive about this deeply flawed financing model

It was Norman Lamont who first announced a new way of paying for public buildings and infrastructure in November 1992. In a speech to the House of Commons, the then chancellor of the exchequer said he was looking to encourage more private financing for such projects.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss’s plans branded ‘inept madness’ amid Tory concerns over market chaos

Divisions are emerging in the Conservatives, after the Chancellor’s mini-budget prompted turmoil in the markets and talk of a financial crisis

The Guardian - UK

Zahawi faces shortest chancellorship since 1970 – and may be glad of it

The ex-vaccines minister appears to be the equivalent of a caretaker football manager, with Kwarteng waiting in the wings

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher ministers turn on Liz Truss over tax cut plans

Chris Patten, Norman Lamont and Malcolm Rifkind warn former PM would never have approved borrowing to fund £30bn cuts

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak will vow to tackle inflation and then lower taxes if he becomes PM

Ex-chancellor to kick off his Tory leadership campaign as speculation grows over who could back him

The Independent UK

Newly declassified files reveal UK interest in Falklands oil

Ministers wanted to cash in on oil around islands before and after war

The Guardian - UK

Declassified files reveal British interest in Falkland Islands oil

Ministers keen to claim UK right to potential deposits before and after 1982 war with Argentina

The Independent UK

‘Talking shop for past-it politicians’: BBC’s new political editor railed against Lords in student article

The House of Lords is full of ‘unelected know-it-alls’, a young Chris Mason wrote

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