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economy

Rishi Sunak
Opinion

The Conservative Party conference offered no policies to fix the country

Prem Sikka
6 October, 2023

The ruling Conservative Party might have reflected on its failures and offered fresher policies to rejuvenate the economy and heal social divisions

Liz Truss
News

Liz Truss will host ‘growth rally’ at Tory party conference

Basit Mahmood
2 October, 2023

Truss is urging Sunak to be bolder and tackle the UK’s low-growth ‘crisis’.

Opinion

The collapse of Wilko also shows why we need to reform insolvency laws

Prem Sikka
22 September, 2023

Questions ought to be asked about Wilko directors paying £3m in dividends in the financial year to 31 January 2022 when Wilko made a pre-tax loss of £38.7m

Mark Carney
News

Mark Carney demolishes Brexit and Liz Truss’ economic policies

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023

‘When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel’

Liz Truss
News

Liz Truss defends her disastrous mini-budget and says she was right all along

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023

It’s everyone else’s fault apparently…

Canary Wharf
News

UK economy shrinks at quickest pace in seven months

Basit Mahmood
13 September, 2023

“Another dismal day for growth in the UK economy. Appalling Tory decisions (and failures to make decisions) have left us stuck in a low growth, high tax trap.”

Nick robinson
News

Tory MP roasted by Nick Robinson for trying to claim UK economy is in great shape

Basit Mahmood
16 August, 2023

‘If you’re flat on your back it’s quite easy to grow faster.’

News

15-year wage stagnation has left average earnings £230 a week lower than their pre-financial crisis trend

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The good news of today doesn’t make up for 15 years of unprecedented wage stagnation.

News

Chart sums up perfectly just how bad Britain’s economy is under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.

£10 notes pegged to a washing line
Opinion

It’s time to debunk the myths of neoliberalism

Prem Sikka
21 July, 2023

Our lives are not governed by some invisible hand of fate. Rather they are governed by myths and theories that mask power and politics and advance the interests of elites

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