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Who might befriend George Galloway in parliament?

His motley of acquaintances include Jacob Rees-Mogg and Jeremy Corbyn

Evening Standard

For years, the Tories said austerity was over. But look around: it’s getting worse, and there’s more to come

This week’s budget is certain to bring more cuts. Westminster is missing the stark fact that people simply cannot take any more, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt knows Brexit Britain can’t afford to cut taxes

The chancellor is prepared to inflict yet more austerity to pay for a budget bribe. But the UK needs more spending, not less

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Labour in power faces dire economic inheritance, says Rachel Reeves

Shadow chancellor criticises Tory years of failure and says national mission is needed to kickstart economy

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Why does Labour need to suck up to the City? Britain’s economy is already stifled by finance

In power, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will regret falling for propaganda about ‘competitiveness’, says Nicholas Shaxson, director at the Balanced Economy Project

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: The UK is in urgent need of a sensible home-energy policy

In today’s newsletter: Successive governments’ failure to implement a solution to energy efficiency has serious consequences for fuel poverty – Labour’s U-turn doesn’t help

The Guardian - UK

Labour must overcome its small-c conservatism

Letters: Readers respond to articles by Yanis Varoufakis, Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot on Labour’s economic policies

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak warned against fresh austerity drive to finance tax cuts

Unions outraged as Jeremy Hunt said to be considering cutting public spending to balance books in next month’s budget

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‘Rishi’s recession’: Reeves seizes her moment to take the economic high ground

Shadow chancellor’s No 10-style press conference given extra credence by decision to drop £28bn green pledge, Labour sources say

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Labour accuses Hunt of being ‘out of touch’, with voting under way in Kingswood and Wellingborough byelections – as it happened

Labour aiming to win two byelections as chancellor defends Sunak’s record, saying ‘economy is turning a corner’

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Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy?

It is one thing to U-turn on a modest green transition programme. It is another to do so using mendacious Tory economic paradigms, says the economist Yanis Varoufakis

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We’ve heard lots about what Labour won’t do, but here’s something they should: close the Tories’ tax loopholes

Rachel Reeves has ruled out a wealth tax, but she’ll need to raise revenue somehow – and there are still good options available, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Labour’s green rowback: honest politics or a costly mistake?

Letters: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves cannot promise to spend £28bn they don’t yet have, writes former party leader Neil Kinnock, while others argue that funding a green future is not a matter of ambition but necessity

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Starmer and Reeves should listen to Brown’s call for action on child poverty

Letters: Susan Treagus thinks Labour’s top team should ask the former chancellor for policy help, Shelagh Young says destitute families deserve more, and Les Bonney advocates reading the poem Timothy Winters

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By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum

Keir Starmer will now be appealing to voters on the basis it can run the status quo better than the Tories

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Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government

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The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it

Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer chose the lesser of two evils by ditching his £28bn green target

Once upon a time, it was possible to be all things to all people. Back in 1993, when Sir Tony Blair was invited to contribute his favourite recipe to the Islington Cookbook, he selected fettuccine with olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and capers. By the time he entered Downing Street, his…

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Kemi Badenoch says death threats have ‘intensified’ since publication of Nadine Dorries book – as it happened

Business secretary says people have ‘latched onto’ claims made in Nadine Dorries book that puts forward elaborate conspiracy theories

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Starmer’s £28bn green plan was bungled but Labour still has bold hopes for the country – and the planet

Even if pared back, the party still has the only real growth policy in town, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Dropping of £28bn pledge marks a shift in Reeves’s entire economic philosophy

Rachel Reeves had promised to spend big to be Britain’s first green chancellor. Now she wants to spend as little public money as possible

The Guardian - UK

If Labour won’t cap bankers’ bonuses, what is it for?

Letters: Readers respond to the shadow chancellor’s refusal to reinstate the cap on bankers’ bonuses if Labour is elected

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Circumstances have changed, our ambitions have not. That’s what you need to know now about our green plan

No one expected the Tories to crash the economy like they did. Building a greener Britain means being honest about this, say Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

The Guardian - UK

Labour cuts £28bn green investment pledge by half

Keir Starmer announces party will now spend less than £15bn on green projects a year if it wins election

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Tory Top Team send the Mighty Philpster to tackle PMQs trans joke fallout

As Labour agonised over their £28bn-a-year green pledge, No 10 was working on mitigating Sunak’s latest PMQs disaster

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