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    No quick fix for underperforming operator, plagued by outdated fax machines and voluntary overtime

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  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    UK politics
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    Downward pressure on UK economic growth and upward pressure on defence spending create dilemmas for Labour

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
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    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

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  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Labour party UK
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  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
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    Three moments where Budgets have gone wrong

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  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
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  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
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    Police reform has become a forgotten issue

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

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  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Labour party UK
    A Trump victory would end ‘normal’ politics between UK and US

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  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
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    The root of the crisis in special needs education

    Since legislative changes in 2014, governments have failed to adapt this area of public policy as autism diagnoses increase

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  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    UK tax
    Reeves banks on big Budget wheeze to reconcile Labour’s pledges

    Continuing Tory ‘stealth’ freeze on thresholds pulls many middle earners into higher rate, but carries risks

    Rachel Reeves visits a glass factory
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
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    Labour discovers price of freebies in our democracy

    Journalists are right to raise questions over Starmer’s Taylor Swift meeting and acceptances from donors

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  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    English devolution
    England’s mayors in diplomacy dance to shift balance of power

    Officials hope summits involving regions and centre can lead to devolution of decision-making and growth initiatives

    Keir Starmer talks with Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill, left, regional mayors Oliver Coppard, centre, and Andy Burnham and Northern Ireland’s deputy first Minister Emma Little-Pengelly during the first Council of Nations and Regions in Edinburgh
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves’s invidious choices in the Budget

    As the FT’s chancellor game shows, the new ‘golden rule’ is her binding constraint. Meeting it could bolster fiscal credibility

    A stressed out chancellor sits at a cabinet table with colleagues
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Scottish independence
    Salmond’s death leaves Scottish independence cause further adrift

    SNP battling multiple fronts despite John Swinney’s optimism he can win the 2026 Holyrood elections

    Alex Salmond
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    UK crime
    Why the UK is failing to catch up with fraudsters

    The UK must equip law enforcement to tackle increasingly sophisticated criminals and give victims confidence to report

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  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Will Labour’s troubled start in power end happily?

    Starmer’s first 99 days spark concern, but so do Conservative party prospects; plus, exclusive polling

    Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    This Tory leadership ballot suits nobody, only perhaps Keir Starmer

    Even Labour will not benefit from one of two rightwing contenders taking Conservatives off on a strange journey

    James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    James Cleverly
    Should Cleverly try to choose his opponent in final round?

    Gambling with such a small electorate of 121 MPs could end in humiliating defeat

    The remaining Conservative leadership contenders Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Kemi Badenoch
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Whitehall reform
    Starmer’s missions need the government machine to run better

    Previous governments have attempted the Whitehall silo-busting needed by Labour to achieve its five big aims

    Prime minister Keir Starmer making a statement in the House of Commons
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer corrects Downing Street dysfunction, but will this restore direction?

    Sue Gray’s departure and reset shows PM is quick to adapt, but also suggests he may lack focus

    Keir Starmer on Downing Street steps
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