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Economic policy

June 2026

  • Tom Kerridge holding a piece of meat

    Top chefs back Andy Burnham for prime minister to cut VAT on hospitality

  • a woman circles in red a job advert in the newspaper

    UK companies opting to hire temporary workers over permanent staff, recruitment firms say

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    double quotation markRachel Reeves may be unpopular, but she is quietly rebalancing UK plc

    Heather Stewart
  • Andy Burnham sits with a pub landlord, each nursing a pint of Guinness

    Burnham pledges to review NICs increase and cut business rates for pubs

  • double quotation markBritain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus

    Jonathan Freedland

  • UK government to pay £1.3bn to help fund Universal Studios theme park in Bedfordshire

  • Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax

  • double quotation markDespite what the UK right will tell you, appeasing bond markets has actually led to instability

    Andy Beckett

May 2026

  • Richard Partington

    Economics viewpoint
    double quotation markThe disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems

    Richard Partington
  • Composite image of Faye and Josh

    Rise in youth unemployment driving more to homelessness, UK charities say

  • People at an employment fair.

    Labour poised for fresh welfare changes after scale of youth jobs crisis revealed

  • A landmark report has warned that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people, as new figures show that more than 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK were not in education, employment or training. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Partington

    Today in Focus: The Latest
    'Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest

    Video10:26

  • Today in Focus
    ‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest

    Podcast10:59

  • Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say

  • Ministers in talks over shelving carbon tax on fertiliser to curb UK food inflation

  • double quotation markThe establishment reaction to Andy Burnham’s rise is a sign of the fight to come

    Clive Lewis

  • Reeves begins push to remain as chancellor under new Labour leadership

  • Prospect of Labour leadership race brings out different sides of rivals

  • Reeves cuts VAT on summer days out to 5% as part of cost of living support

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says he will campaign for Burnham in Makerfield byelection – as it happened

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