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  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Reeves draws line under tax rises, but will Labour’s other pledges survive?

    Labour’s Budget pushed levies on employers to the limit — Trump era may mean preparing households for pain too

    Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Fraud reshapes UK policy and policing playbook

    Key measures to tackle crime involve private sector taking on greater responsibilities, which bear indirect costs on state

    The city of London
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Streets are safer but our policing is no better

    Yvette Cooper plans reforms to improve performance across England and Wales, urging better government leadership

    A police officer in Westminster
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Jimmy Lai
    Jimmy Lai case tests red lines of UK-China relations

    British national’s supporters hope human rights will be prioritised over UK push for strong relationship with Beijing

    Jimmy Lai walks through the Stanley prison in Hong Kong
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Farmer uproar a consequence of Labour’s high-risk tax pledges

    Farmers’ union and government diverge on scale of impact of Budget changes

    Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, centre, with colleagues Esther McVey, left and Priti Patel, right, gather at a protest by farmers against government changes to inheritance tax rules in London
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    UK Government
    How to strengthen government machinery

    Much-needed update of special adviser role must also improve support for opposition parties

    Harold Wilson outside Downing Street in 1966
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Why Labour will struggle to reset the UK-China relationship

    Decisions made in the Sunak and Johnson eras complicate the route forward

    A woman holds a Union flag and a Chinese flag
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    UK politics
    UK ministers admit to Brexit pains, but the relief is on hold

    Pro-Europeans granted opening to campaign on single issues that strengthen UK-EU ties

    A person wears a shirt featuring the union flag, EU stars and the phrase ‘Better Before Brexit’ on the back
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Streeting bets on better NHS management but doesn’t go for structural reform

    Labour will keep independent commissioning body NHS England despite large disagreement that the system works

    Wes Streeting and Rachel Reeves visit St George’s hospital
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK’s dual motive for higher defence spending raises problems

    Trump era means government has to navigate competing pressures, but it must solve its procurement woes first

    Ajax armoured vehicle
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Assisted dying: caution and compromise may end in dissatisfaction

    Politicians who support a law change in principle may still vote against the bill that currently falls short

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  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Trump’s return adds new strains on UK foreign policy

    Keir Starmer’s government will probably move towards deeper UK-EU relations under geopolitical pressures

  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Decarbonisation, downsized: what became of Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan

    A Trump rollback of climate initiatives could help Europe attract funding but UK’s rebrand of goals highlights mountain ahead

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves during a visit to Ocean Gate
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Rail
    Northern’s rail woes expose challenge of reform — and a stuck nation

    No quick fix for underperforming operator, plagued by outdated fax machines and voluntary overtime

    A person boarding a Northern train
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Trump just made UK’s decision-making a whole lot harder

    Downward pressure on UK economic growth and upward pressure on defence spending create dilemmas for Labour

    Donald Trump with his wife Melania during his rally in Florida on election night
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Labour draws dividing line on tuition fees

    Party may hit political difficulties as the amount rises with inflation and system loses its original advantages

    Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrives for a cabinet meeting at Downing Street
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Why the Tories stay ahead on political firsts

    Rule book ability to change its leaders has driven its success — but also its dysfunction

    Kemi Badenoch standing in front of a podium giving a speech as leader of the Conservative party
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Transport
    Decades of bus decline and what hampers Labour’s route forward

    Bus fare cap increase will have only limited effect as the Budget lacked proper funding boost to support services

    Bus station
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Rachel Reeves’ budget leaves her little room to manoeuvre

    Bet on long-term improvements will make spending review in 2027 a crunch time for the government

    Rachel Reeves outside Downing Street holding the red box
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Brutal Budget is likely to stoke some upset

    Departmental spending to increase by only 1.7%, with little going towards tackling poverty at home and overseas

    A woman and her two children in London
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    The pressures on Britain’s state, in charts

    Ageing population is a great policy achievement but the higher costs demand tax increases and improved growth

    A person in a wheelchair and a carer
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour doesn’t know who ‘its people’ are

    Government inability to define group at core of its tax pledges reflects lack of political direction from top

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Three moments where Budgets have gone wrong

    Could Rachel Reeves’ first Budget have unintended long-term consequences like Gordon Brown’s?

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses journalists at a press conference at 10 Downing Street in December 2007
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Rachel Reeves
    Why chancellors need fiscal rules

    Rachel Reeves’s new set-up frees up capital spending but her ability to reap benefits depends on many other things

    Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    UK police
    Police reform has become a forgotten issue

    Fatal shootings by armed UK officers are rare and statistics suggest system for monitoring cases is reasonable

    Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley reads a statement after police officer Martyn Blake was found not guilty of murdering Chris Kaba at New Scotland Yard, London
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