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Phillip Inman

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Phillip Inman is senior economics writer for the Guardian

June 2026

  • The Daphne Steele building at the University of Huddersfield

    Healthy cooperation: how northern universities are linking with NHS trusts to drive innovation

    Backed by a mix of private and public finance, Huddersfield and Manchester are among many in the academic sector helping to create jobs and growth
  • Six lanes of traffic cut through the countryside and disappear into a tunnel before reaching the River Thames

    Extra £174m earmarked for ‘spiralling’ bill for Lower Thames Crossing

    More than £3bn is due to be spent on the proposed road tunnel between Kent and Essex, which is estimated to have higher costs per mile than HS2
    • Business live
      US job creation smashes forecasts in May, fuelling rate hike bets; ‘no jet fuel shortage in Europe’ – as it happened

    • UK shoppers return to high street as warm weather brings respite from shadow of war

    • Reeves examines using private sector funds to speed building of new towns

May 2026

  • Walker sitting on the big stone on the top of the mountain

    Four in 10 struggle to access mobile signal on the move in the UK

  • The Bank of England in the City of London is covered in scaffolding during renovation to its facade

    Bank of England’s Bailey says no rush to raise interest rates amid Iran war uncertainty

  • Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

    Business live
    US PCE inflation rate hits three-year high as Iran war pushes up prices – as it happened

  • Protest placards leaning against a wall and lying on the ground, calling for higher wages and an end to zero-hour contracts

    Ministers urged to press ahead with UK ban on zero-hours contracts

April 2026

  • Rachel Reeves gives a ministerial statement on the Middle East to the House of Commons last month

    Viewpoint column
    double quotation markReeves rightly fears the bond market, but she can afford to ditch one unhelpful rule

    Phillip Inman
  • Liz Truss speaking on stage

    Viewpoint column
    double quotation markTrussonomics still haunts parties’ economic promises in run-up to UK local elections

    Phillip Inman
  • President Donald Trump and attorney general Pam Bondi at the White House.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Trump reportedly mulling more firings after removing Pam Bondi as attorney general - as it happened

  • Donald Trump behind a lectern, holding a document titled 'foreign trade barriers'.

    ‘If he’d stayed on the golf course, we’d be in a better place’: experts on Trump’s tariffs, one year on

March 2026

  • About a third of fertiliser production travels through the strait of Hormuz, pushing up prices.

    IMF warns Middle East conflict will lead to higher prices and slower global growth

  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves in a blue suit at the House of Commons in London

    Families hardest hit by energy crisis could be given funds dispensed by councils in England

  • The oil and chemical tanker Habip Bayrak sails off the Gulf of Fos-sur-Mer, in Port-de-Bouc, France, 12 March.

    Business live
    Brent crude rises after Trump says he wants to ‘take the oil’ in Iran and Yemeni Houthis launch second attack on Israel – as it happened

  • The floor of the New York Stock Exchange today

    Business live
    Wall Street hits six-month low and Dow falls into correction as Trump ‘appears to lose his grip on markets’ – as it happened

  • Business live
    NS&I chief executive replaced in ‘fresh start’ over missing savings crisis; bad day for markets – as it happened

  • Middle East conflict will damage UK’s economy ‘more than any other’

  • Business live
    ECB could raise eurozone rates ‘as soon as next month’; oil price dips on peace talk hopes – as it happened

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