The Budget must give people hope
The Starmer team knows it cannot succeed by offering voters no short-term improvements.
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Debunking the fiscal black hole myth
Rachel Reeves is the latest chancellor to lean on a tired cliché.
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Can Rachel Reeves win the argument?
The Budget will seek to define Britain’s past – and its future.
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The left must resist the seductions of austerity
Britain and Germany are walking into the same fiscal doom loop.
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Labour’s Budget dilemma
The tension between a pledge to limit tax rises and the party’s rule against borrowing for day-to-day spending is showing.
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Taking on the Treasury
Rachel Reeves has more power than any chancellor in recent history. She should use it.
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Will Rachel Reeves’ tax gamble pay off?
The Chancellor knows that Labour’s re-election depends on improving public services.
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Rachel Reeves: Richest will bear the brunt of Budget tax rises
In an exclusive interview to be published in next week’s New Statesman, the Chancellor reveals her fiscal priorities.
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Is Rachel Reeves facing a Liz Truss moment?
Higher borrowing costs should not deter the Chancellor from investing in growth.
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What Rachel Reeves can learn from Keynes
The economist’s older, weirder and wilder models could unlock Labour’s investment dilemma.
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Labour’s battle for Britain
After a brutal summer, the government is already disliked. Can Keir Starmer reassert the authority of the state?
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Labour’s post-Budget dilemma
Rachel Reeves has ruled out additional tax rises and borrowing – does that mean bringing back austerity?
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Labour will need “to a find different way” to pay for £111m NHS dentistry reform
Preet Gill, the shadow public health minister, said that there are no plans for the party to U-turn on the…
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What would Labour do differently?
The party is standing by its commitment to reconfigure the way the public finances are measured.
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The Conservatives still look doomed
Jeremy Hunt’s Budget lacked a sharp-edged election argument capable of troubling Labour.
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“Austerity has returned”: The expert verdict on Jeremy Hunt’s Budget
Reactions to the Chancellor’s plans for the economy.
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The Chancellor’s biggest budget giveaway is to his own re-election campaign
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Britain’s fiscal fantasies
Rather than address a broken public realm and long-term economic stagnation, the Conservatives have chosen to prioritise tax cuts.
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How will Labour respond to the Budget?
Jeremy Hunt’s tax cuts will re-inject ideological division ahead of the election.
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Jeremy Hunt must seize his chance to get the NHS back on track
For a healthier society, the government must commit to funding and support that can fix the health service.
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