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Jeremy Hunt’s plan to cut inheritance tax is a disaster
It will win votes from the well-off but lose huge amounts of tax revenue he could have used to help the poor
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Liz Truss was wrong about everything… except the irresponsible OBR
If the OBR were obliged to model a range of outcomes it would be far more constructive and could, finally, hand political responsibility back to the politicians
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Xi Jinping’s alternative world vision
China is trying to re-shape globalisation to its own ends. What does Beijing want – and what does it need?
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How Super Mario stored up trouble for the Eurozone
Draghi promised to do “whatever it takes” to prop up the single currency, but high interest rates have damaged his legacy
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Should we be worried about how safe our banks are?
We’ve supposedly built a better system, yet are there still collapses
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The outlook is better, but Britain is still bottom of the economic class
The new IMF forecasts contain little for Brexiteers to be cheerful about
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The Tories’ future is rejoin
The Conservatives exist only in order to win elections – they will soon twig that one path to doing that involves dumping Brexit
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Gibraltar’s Brexit limbo
Despite voting Remain, the Rock is now outside the EU – and it has “no deal”. Might Spain be about to “take back control”?
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The wannabe Nigel Lawsons have wrecked our economy
His successors as chancellor believe they can deliver tax cuts like his when they are no longer sustainable
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Does Sunak’s new trade deal really mean we can never rejoin the EU? Of course not
Linking up with Indo-Pacific countries won’t live up to the Brexiteers’ wild claims
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Britain is falling behind, thanks to Brexit
Britain led the first industrial revolution, but Europe will lead the next
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Where are the pension rights for 1950s-born women?
We won't beg. It's time for the government to acknowledge women's due - and pay it
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Brexit has ruined everything, everywhere, all at once
Jeremy Hunt’s budget shows that leaving the EU is only paying off in a parallel universe
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Banking is too risky to be left to bankers
Credit Suisse had been doing business for 167 years – how did it vanish so quickly? And, are we heading for a 2008-style meltdown?
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The problem of confidence
Another bank has collapsed, which shows once more that we have a global economy but local regulation
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Another Brexit dividend: Suppliers are running scared of doing business with Britain
Manufacturers say fears over red tape and political chaos are creating more uncertainty
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Sunak has let slip the truth about the single market. Brexit will never be the same again
Now the rest of Britain will ask, ‘if it’s so great, why aren't we in it too?’
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Poland will outgrow Britain unless we break our addiction to tax cuts
Keir Starmer’s target is laudable, but it requires a political sea change
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Sunak’s weakness could allow hard Brexiters to strip away our human rights
Pulling Britain out of the ECHR to appease his party’s hardliners would be a disaster
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Was Liz Truss a genius after all?
The short-lived PM’s new big idea sounds suspiciously familiar…
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Are we the new Italy?
Our economy is suffering the same problems of low growth and poor productivity experienced by our Italian neighbour
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Sunak’s pretence that Brexit bad news isn’t real will damage our economy even further
New figures put the cost at £1,000 of leaving the EU at per household per year
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The Bank of England delivers more Brexit bad news
Brexit halted UK growth by £29bn says a senior bank official
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Wideangle: How rich are the super-rich?
Which countries are home to Europe's uber wealthy?
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The tragic money tree
What happened to all Britain’s cash? The answer is that right wing economics have failed Britain – again
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Trouble at the millennials
In debt, still renting and with minuscule pensions to look forward to. Meet the doomed generation
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Brexit’s flat battery
The unsurprising collapse of Britishvolt, and the total lack of strategy or investment in batteries, will be the final nail in the coffin for the car industry
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Nadhim Zahawi made his own departure inevitable
But the question remains: will Rishi Sunak learn from this?
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Doing worse than Russia
The biggest enemy of “Global Britain” is its economy
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Brexodus: Where have all the workers gone?
The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear
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Finally, the Brexit penny has dropped for Sunak
The need to work together on Putin, China and extreme weather mean even the Leaver in No 10 now wants closer ties with Europe
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Let the rich pay more tax and NI to save the NHS
Making those who can afford it pay more is the logical first step to resolve the crisis at the heart of the NHS