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Starmer is warned that public sector pay rises will drive up inflation
Major settlements and salary increases could cement Bank’s fears of wage-price spiral, say economists
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Why Starmer faces a Herculean task to get Britain to top the G7 growth league
Britain’s collapse in productivity means Labour is starting from behind the pack
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The end is in sight for Keir Starmer’s honeymoon period
The ‘lucky general’ may have it good for now, but an economic storm is on the horizon
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It’s time to be blunt: too many young people have worthless degrees
I’d be delighted if my child wanted to become a plumber or electrician – far happier than if she went for a politics degree
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IT meltdown shows how horrifyingly exposed we are to total economic collapse
Over-dependence on cloud software has left the world one glitch away from disaster
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The charts that show why Starmer risks a public finances crisis
Britain’s debt problem threatens to derail Labour’s pledge to fix public services
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Covid groupthink did not serve Britain well
Putting the economy into deep freeze while making furlough payments has left the public finances burdened by a higher national debt
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Labour is about to learn a hard lesson in GCSE economics – and so are we
Resources are scarce and markets are efficient – fundamental truths that the Government ignores
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Worklessness is Starmer’s problem now. Here’s why he’ll struggle to fix it
Labour has no obvious quick solution to Britain’s biggest economic problem
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Why the UK is the holy grail for investors
Britain is currently among the most undervalued stock markets in the world
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How ‘Ponzi scheme’ public sector pensions threaten to bankrupt Britain
‘Scandalous’ system will rack up a multi-trillion pound bill that taxpayers will pay
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Why Britain’s inflation battle is far from over
Consumer price index growth fails to drop in June, despite economists’ forecasts
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Labour is set to push Britain even further down the road to serfdom
Party’s belief in more state intervention threatens disastrous consequences for Britain
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Rachel Reeves must go big and rein in the OBR
Chancellor has a once-in-a-generation chance to free us from fiscal obscurantism
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I worked at the Treasury. Here’s where Labour will be plotting tax rises
Revenue raisers dismissed by the Conservatives are likely to be back on the table
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There is only one way to reform inheritance tax
No amount of political moralising can exorcise the hatred of death duties. They must be scrapped
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Interest rate cuts under threat from ‘stubbornly high inflation’
‘Brisk’ wage growth in advanced economies is driving up the price of services