Rachel Reeves increased the minimum wage, the rate of employers’ national insurance and the amount of income on which that charge is levied in her
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Katie Martin, a member of the FT editorial board, has noted the massive increase in the value of cryptocurrencies since the election of Trump in
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As the Guardian has reported in a newsletter this morning: Wes Streeting has decided it’s time to bring [a] competitive edge to the NHS. Yesterday,
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Rachael Reeves turned up at Larry Elliott’s farewell drinks at the Guardian last night. I did not have the chance to talk to her, but
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Trump’s plan to impose massive tariffs on imports into the USA are bad news for US consumers, and most specially the poorest people in that
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As the FT notes this morning: Labour has lost more than 40 per cent of the council seats it has defended in by-elections since the
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Keir Starmer flew to Azerbaijan to announce nothing new on climate change at COP 29 yesterday. Reports suggested: The UK will pledge to cut emissions
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I mentioned yesterday that my video on Trump’s prospects in 2025 had been watched by more than 330,000 people on YouTube, with that figure still
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The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury might be unprecedented in the history of that post, but it does not, somehow, come as a shock.
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