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Hands off our savings, Chancellor
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that "hundreds of billions of pounds in cash ISAs are being siphoned away from the London Stock Exchange"...
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The Strategic Defence Review means crunch time for Labour on tax rises and spending cuts
In the months leading up to the general election, Labour made a calculated decision to rule out a wide range of tax increases – a move designed to...
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From pledges to pivots: Labour's year of climate retrenchment
Co-authored by By Imogen O'Rorke and Tim Le Couilliard Almost a year since taking power, Labour now finds itself between a rock and a hard place on...
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Will European energy cooperation bring down Britain’s bills?
Britain and the European Union reached an agreement last week on trade, defence, fisheries, energy cooperation, and future policy alignment. Sir Keir...
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The new climate denial
Forget the old climate denial – science is no longer up for debate. The new battleground is the economy. In an exclusive interview with The Guardian...
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Decisions, decisions: Who looks set to be the winners and losers of Reeves’ upcoming Spending Review?
It’s crunch time for Rachel Reeves as the countdown for her hotly anticipated Spending Review is well and truly underway. In just under two weeks...
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A dystopian dream: discovering Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction
Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the UK’s most famous motorway interchange? Welcome to the dystopian underworld of the Spaghetti Junction...
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A new political lens: Populism versus pragmatism
The rise of Reform UK and other populist movements across the globe is often misinterpreted as a simple left-versus-right phenomenon. In reality, it...
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