Rishi Sunak is haunted by the ghost of Christmas present
As the Chancellor contends with chronic shortages and a living standards squeeze, his fear is that voters’ patience may run…
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Are we heading for a new era of “stagflation”?
The economic outlook for the future is uniformly grim.
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The lorry driver shortage presents the UK with an unpalatable choice
The government must choose between queues and shortages or higher prices.
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The week Britain ran out
From closed petrol forecourts to empty supermarket shelves, a shortage society is forming and the cost of living is rising.
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Why China’s Evergrande debt crisis is the tip of an iceberg
The woes of the world’s most heavily indebted property developer could soon mean problems for Xi Jinping, China’s economy and…
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Why Labour should break the mould and promise to cut taxes
Pay rises for the many and tax rises for the few could be a winning message for the party.
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The Tories’ regressive social care plan gives Labour the space for a radical alternative
As the Tories ape New Labour by taxing work rather than wealth, Keir Starmer’s party must show that it understands…
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The big problem with the SNP’s plan to measure Scotland’s success by “wellbeing”
Measuring a country’s GDP doesn’t give the whole story, but whichever metric you use, the SNP’s record falls short.
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