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Autumn budget must show financial firepower behind ‘levelling up’
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Britain’s economic recovery from lockdown is stalling and inflation is on the rise. With the approach of autumn, prophecies made earlier this year for a surge in consumer spending appear to have fallen flat, washed ou...
Ending furlough too soon will wreck post-Covid chances for many firms
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The complaints from employers are getting louder. Far from the headlines a year ago warning of a rerun of 1980s-style unemployment, businesses are worried there aren’t enough workers to go around. And yet Britain’s ec...
G7 deal is as much about balance of power as global tax reform
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A historic agreement has been reached. For decades, multinational corporations have abused gaps in an international tax system that has barely changed since agreements made at the League of Nations in the 1920s. Dopo...
Labour needs new message as Tories reshape economic policy around towns
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Let the recriminations commence. In the aftermath of electoral defeat in its former industrial heartlands, Labour is in search of yet another new direction. While much of the focus is on the fundamental shifts in our ...
St Helens win Women’s Challenge Cup after Eboni Partington sinks Leeds
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St Helens successfully defended the Women’s Challenge Cup as two tries from Eboni Partington helped them edge Leeds Rhinos in a thrilling final at Elland Road. The two standout sides in the Women’s Super League delive...
Starmer knows he must offer hope to hard-hit ‘red wall’ towns
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It is a cold night on a Stoke-on-Trent industrial estate and Keir Starmer is in town again. It’s at least his seventh trip here in search of redemption after Labour’s historic defeat in 2019, in a sign of how importan...
The real message of Rishi Sunak’s budget will be laying groundwork for next election
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Soaring living costs, shortages on supermarket shelves and a health emergency that was supposed to be all over bar the shouting. Rarely in peacetime has a British chancellor faced a more perilous economic backdrop for...
L'economia del Regno Unito è in un posto strano, considerando che dovremmo tornare alla normalità
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Prima c'erano gli scaffali dei supermercati vuoti e la carenza di personale "pingdemico", ora Nandos ha finito il pollo e l'industria automobilistica è a corto di patatine. È uno stato di cose insolito per un paese in cui si supponeva la normalità...
Warm on words but cold on substance – the UK recovery plan is a mess
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Spring is here, lockdown restrictions are easing and the evenings are getting longer. As we take each small step towards the new normal, we are reminded of just how far Britain has come since Covid-19 struck, and just...