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Nurses will be striking for their pay, your health – and the future of the NHS

There is nothing ‘militant’ about demanding less than what you were paid in 2010. The government needs to zip up and stump up, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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It may sound paradoxical, but Britain needs to spend its way out of recession

Cutting during a recession has been long discredited, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s only been in office for a few days – and the errors are already piling up

The prime minister promised Britain a ‘new age of optimism’. On the evidence of his first week, the worst is yet to come, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Braverman’s return shows how deeply Sunak is in hock to the hard right

The new PM promised integrity and competence. Instead we got a dangerous dependency – which Labour can weaponise, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Rishi Sunak’s cuts will be more brutal than austerity. Remember: they are a choice, not a necessity

Can voters forgive the gutting of services already at breaking point, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Truss is gone. The Tory experiment is dying. Kill it off. Then don’t forgive and don’t forget

Truss and Kwarteng only extended the madness of Osborne and Cameron. And know hard years of repair lie ahead, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Before he slashes services even further, Hunt should look at the state of the UK

The last thing the country needs is another dose of austerity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This mini-budget crisis feels like the death of the Conservative party

Liz Truss has reduced the Tories to a failed revolutionary faction staring into a £62bn black hole, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The Tories fear and loathe the NHS, but they know they have gone too far this time

As 7 million people wait for treatment and nurses prepare to strike, the government desperately tries to deflect the blame, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This is no time for Labour to get complacent

Letters: The Tories may look doomed now, but we shouldn’t write them off just yet, warn Bernie Evans and Martyn Taylor

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Has Liz Truss done enough to save herself? Our panel’s verdict

The prime minister addressed the Tory conference as leader for the first time. What are the chances that it could be her last?

The Guardian - UK

These Tories are heading for oblivion, and no amount of U-turns can change that

On everything from the 45p tax rate to immigration, Kwarteng and Truss are living in a different world to voters, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Why is Labour ignoring its own members on electoral reform?

Liberal-left coalitions are the only way to overturn the right’s unfair electoral advantage, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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How did Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour conference go? Our panel’s verdict

The leader’s speech wasn’t short on policy. But will it be enough to revive Labour’s fortunes?

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Dozens hear case for British republic at Labour fringe event

Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee said at the event that she would have liked the Queen to be 'Elizabeth the last'

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Dozens hear case for British republic at ‘naughtiest’ Labour fringe event

Guests warned against a future with a ‘white privileged male’ as head of state until the end of the century.

The Guardian - UK

Who’s to blame for 12 years’ desecration of our NHS? Doctors, says Thérèse Coffey

Yet another new health secretary has arrived with all kinds of whizzo ideas, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This week we will see Truss unchained. Labour must be rubbing its hands with glee

With official mourning over, the new prime minister will start to lay out her wilfully unpopular policies, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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MPs should have to walk in weary nurses’ shoes

Letters: Drusilla Long praises NHS workers and supports potential strike action by them, and Bill Kingdom suggests empathy training for MPs. Plus Alan Kembery and Chris Osman lament a health service starved of adequate funding

The Guardian - UK

Dissenting voices on royal mourning have been silenced. This is ‘cancel culture’

Fear of being attacked by a rightwing mob is stifling freedom of expression following the Queen’s death, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Tin-eared Liz Truss is obsessed by tax cuts, so why shouldn’t NHS nurses strike?

If ministers can afford £150bn for energy bills, they can afford to pay nurses more, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The Queen has left a void that Britain will struggle to fill

Letters: We should mourn a paragon of duty and devotion, say readers in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, but also take stock of the role of the monarchy

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By rejecting a windfall tax, Truss has painted herself into a corner

The ‘handout’ of capped bills is not enough to buy off voters outraged at the excess profits of energy companies, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

No vision, no charisma, no real plan: Labour has nothing to fear from Liz Truss

This PM is good news for all who want the Tories out, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The UK is at a perilous tipping point. But what is Truss planning to do about it?

Each day brings more news about a spiralling catastrophe – the economy is crying out for major government intervention, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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