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economy

Rachel Reeves delivering her spending review this afternoon

Government acknowledges ‘severe’ economic impact of Brexit

Basit Mahmood
15 October, 2025

Reeves said Brexit is partly to blame for the estimated £50bn blackhole in the economy that she is likely going to have to address at her autumn budget.

Canary Wharf

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Prem Sikka
26 September, 2025

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

How successive governments have created a new rentier economy

Prem Sikka
5 September, 2025

Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. 

Tory MP

Tory MP in car crash interview as he tries to attack Labour on economy

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2025

It backfired…

A side on photo of Rachel Reeves outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech offered nothing for most people

Prem Sikka
17 July, 2025

‘The state needs to be hands-on, and not leave it all to the pirates of City of London’

Drax power station
Opinion

Corporate vs human welfare: The story of Drax

Prem Sikka
27 June, 2025

There is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments.

A photo of Liz Kendall, the Department for Work and Pensions secretary making a statement in Parliament on the WASPI women
Opinion

Kim Johnson MP: The government’s ‘concessions’ on disability benefit cuts ‘do not go anywhere near far enough’

Kim Johnson
27 June, 2025

‘They would create a two-tier benefits system where people would not be eligible for support because they became sick or disabled at a later date.’

Brexit
News

Brexit has blown £40 billion tax hole in public finances, confirming OBR predictions

Basit Mahmood
23 June, 2025

Nine years on, it seems as though those who had rubbished ‘experts’ for warning about the dire impact of Brexit on the economy, could do with some quiet reflection.

Rachel reeves
Opinion

Dawn Butler MP: To truly deliver on the promise of economic growth the government needs a proper plan for London

Dawn Butler
12 June, 2025

Levelling up is indeed vital, but it should not result in the levelling down of London

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement
News

Rachel Reeves roasts Nigel Farage for backing Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget

Basit Mahmood
12 June, 2025

“His party has been in parliament for less than a year and yet already they have racked up £80bn of unfunded commitments. They are simply not serious.”

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