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Only a crisis will wean the west off debt

The British state in particular is unreformable without pressure from the bond markets

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There hasn’t been a ‘big chancellor’ since Osborne: IFS chief gives final mark

There hasn’t been a ‘big chancellor’ since Osborne: IFS chief gives final mark

Labour ‘staking everything’ on billions in investment to reverse UK’s decline

Labour ‘staking everything’ on billions in investment to reverse UK’s decline

Civil service is ‘too remote’ from people’s lives across UK, says minister

Civil service is ‘too remote’ from people’s lives across UK, says minister

Reform UK raised even less in new funding than headline figures suggest

Reform UK raised even less in new funding than headline figures suggest

Penny Mordaunt and Jo Bamford receive awards in King’s birthday honours list

Reeves to lay out infrastructure plan targeting Labour heartlands

MPs back bill changes to prevent medics raising assisted dying with under-18s

MPs back bill changes to prevent medics raising assisted dying with under-18s

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Ministers step up efforts to quell growing rebellion over UK welfare bill

Ministers step up efforts to quell growing rebellion over UK welfare bill

UK government says it gave no military support for Israel’s attack on Iran

UK government says it gave no military support for Israel’s attack on Iran

Reeves sets Labour’s course – but what will it deliver?

‘I could hear the Camerons sniggering at us’ – Sarah Vine’s How Not to Be a Political Wife, digested by John Crace

‘I could hear the Camerons sniggering at us’ – Sarah Vine’s How Not to Be a Political Wife, digested by John Crace

A blizzard of figures from Reeves obscures the real political challenge

‘Locals live here’: racist attacks inflame Northern Ireland’s divisions