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What’s the point of Starmer’s Labour if it won’t stand up for poor, sick or disabled people?

The party should be a beacon of hope for people on benefits. Instead, with a 30-point poll lead, it’s parroting Tory soundbites, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Labour steps up preparations to govern as Reeves attacks ‘unfunded’ Tory tax cuts

Shadow cabinet talk with Whitehall officials after Keir Starmer meets head of civil service

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Sunak warned unfunded axing of national insurance would harm services

Economists say making the policy an election pledge could cost £40bn, which is badly needed for health, education and elsewhere

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How a Conservative budget failed to help women (again)

A single man would gain £346 from tax cuts, compared with £279 for a woman and just £85 for the typical lone mother

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IFS warns of Labour and Tory ‘conspiracy of silence’ over future tax and spending plans

Toughest outlook for public finances for 80 years means next government must find tens of billions in cuts or tax rises, says leading thinktank

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UK politics: Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – as it happened

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measure

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Tory levelling up has been a scam. Here are three things Labour can do to make it actually mean something

Keir Starmer’s party should make councils sustainable, bring local transport into public control – and build new universities, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

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Jeremy Hunt gave us a hit-and-run budget. But unlike cornered chancellors past, he showed no shame

The Tories can see the writing on the wall – so they are intent on wrecking things for an incoming Labour government, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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‘We all know how her show ends’: Jeremy Hunt’s worst budget day jokes

Labour’s Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves were used as punchlines in the chancellor’s sometimes obscure jokes

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The Guardian view on Treasury fiscal rules: no way to run a country

Editorial: Instead of sticking to arbitrary limits, politicians should be able to make the case for spending on urgent social repair

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Who might befriend George Galloway in parliament?

His motley of acquaintances include Jacob Rees-Mogg and Jeremy Corbyn

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For years, the Tories said austerity was over. But look around: it’s getting worse, and there’s more to come

This week’s budget is certain to bring more cuts. Westminster is missing the stark fact that people simply cannot take any more, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Jeremy Hunt knows Brexit Britain can’t afford to cut taxes

The chancellor is prepared to inflict yet more austerity to pay for a budget bribe. But the UK needs more spending, not less

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Labour in power faces dire economic inheritance, says Rachel Reeves

Shadow chancellor criticises Tory years of failure and says national mission is needed to kickstart economy

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Why does Labour need to suck up to the City? Britain’s economy is already stifled by finance

In power, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will regret falling for propaganda about ‘competitiveness’, says Nicholas Shaxson, director at the Balanced Economy Project

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Friday briefing: The UK is in urgent need of a sensible home-energy policy

In today’s newsletter: Successive governments’ failure to implement a solution to energy efficiency has serious consequences for fuel poverty – Labour’s U-turn doesn’t help

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Labour must overcome its small-c conservatism

Letters: Readers respond to articles by Yanis Varoufakis, Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot on Labour’s economic policies

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Rishi Sunak warned against fresh austerity drive to finance tax cuts

Unions outraged as Jeremy Hunt said to be considering cutting public spending to balance books in next month’s budget

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‘Rishi’s recession’: Reeves seizes her moment to take the economic high ground

Shadow chancellor’s No 10-style press conference given extra credence by decision to drop £28bn green pledge, Labour sources say

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Labour accuses Hunt of being ‘out of touch’, with voting under way in Kingswood and Wellingborough byelections – as it happened

Labour aiming to win two byelections as chancellor defends Sunak’s record, saying ‘economy is turning a corner’

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Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy?

It is one thing to U-turn on a modest green transition programme. It is another to do so using mendacious Tory economic paradigms, says the economist Yanis Varoufakis

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We’ve heard lots about what Labour won’t do, but here’s something they should: close the Tories’ tax loopholes

Rachel Reeves has ruled out a wealth tax, but she’ll need to raise revenue somehow – and there are still good options available, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Labour’s green rowback: honest politics or a costly mistake?

Letters: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves cannot promise to spend £28bn they don’t yet have, writes former party leader Neil Kinnock, while others argue that funding a green future is not a matter of ambition but necessity

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Starmer and Reeves should listen to Brown’s call for action on child poverty

Letters: Susan Treagus thinks Labour’s top team should ask the former chancellor for policy help, Shelagh Young says destitute families deserve more, and Les Bonney advocates reading the poem Timothy Winters

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By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum

Keir Starmer will now be appealing to voters on the basis it can run the status quo better than the Tories

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