Britain faces another showdown with the bond market
Governments are finding it more expensive to borrow, and Britain is in an unusually weak position.
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The OBR says that Britain can no longer afford to exist with its current fiscal policy.
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No one wants to pay to fix Britain
Labour backbenchers are preparing to rebel against cuts that haven’t even been announced yet.
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The bond market has rescued Rachel Reeves from Keir Starmer
Financial markets appear to have more confidence in the Chancellor than the Prime Minister.
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Just raise tax
Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of this crisis. The system must be torn down.
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George Osborne is still trashing the UK economy
The Treasury Committee has revealed just how damaging his housing policy really was.
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The populist right should not be the ones to take on neoliberal monetary orthodoxies.
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