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UK economy
Help with bills, a soft touch on wealth: how Healey’s first budget scored
Before the budget, Left Field set three tests: relief for the lowest paid, a fair share from the wealthiest and fair funding for care. Healey scored two partials and a fail.
Don’t let the markets scare you off investing, Unite tells Healey
Union says borrowing to invest is nothing like Truss’s unfunded tax cuts and urges the chancellor to tax the super-rich rather than settle for “managed decline”.
Devolution isn’t enough: why the north needs redistribution, not tinkering
Working-age adults in the north now die at rates 42% higher than in the south, a new study finds. Next week’s budget must start reversing that, not just managing it.
No new taxes on work – so who pays for Burnham’s budget?
Chancellor John Healey has ruled out raising the big three taxes and promised to meet the fiscal rules. That leaves a straight choice – tax wealth or squeeze those least able to pay.
Jamie Driscoll’s plan to escape Britain’s economic doom loop
The former North of Tyne mayor turned Green councillor on his new report Hostage Nation – and why the left needs a plan for power, not just an argument for it.
The housing crisis Andy Burnham can’t fix without breaking the banks
Andy Burnham has made housing his flagship pledge. But the crisis isn’t a shortage of homes – it’s who owns them. Reversing decades of financialised property risks the very crash it was built to prevent, says Brian Green.
New index reveals staggering regional inequality in UK and calls for a political revolution to solve it
A new index showing staggering regional inequality launches in Newcastle today and it reveals a UK that is woefully underprepared for the emerging challenges of the near future.