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Inheritance tax is fair: scrapping it would benefit only the wealthiest
Only the richest 4% will pay it, but everyone seems to hate it. Now it is in the government’s sights
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Cartoon: Should we rejoice about the bankers’ bonus cap removal?
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Britain needs to pay higher taxes
Want to know why? Just go abroad
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Brexit brings unattractive news for the beauty sector
A new report claims leaving the EU has created a £850m drop in the industry’s exports to Europe
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Sunak celebrates his first year by lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses – and we’ll all pay for it
In trying to lure back financiers who left because of Brexit, the PM is opening Britain up to a new financial crisis
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“Russian money has completely corrupted the British establishment”: Bill Browder on the Kremlin’s influence over Brexit and a Russia without Putin
The US investor and prominent anti-Putin activist is gloomy about the likelihood of ousting the dictator
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The government should blame itself for rising unemployment – instead it’s blaming the unemployed
Bad policies creating low growth are behind Britain’s poor job numbers, not feckless ex-workers
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If Starmer wins, he should break up the Treasury and remake No 10
Two good ideas for an incoming Labour government come from a former Tory minister’s report
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We are running out of money
The latest analysis by the IFS makes for sobering reading
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The death of the office
Covid permanently changed the way we work. Now the WFH revolution has hollowed out our cities
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Just how secure can we feel about Rachel Reeves’s Securonomics?
Securonomics is not something the existing machinery of the British state is equipped to execute
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Will Rishi Sunak’s financial feud pay off?
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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Expats are being locked out of their pensions – and Brexit is to blame
The Leave-supporting media is still reluctant to admit it damaged its own readers’ interests
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Can Labour cure Britain’s industrial disease?
Manufacturers are crying out for a long-term strategy. The government won’t supply one. Can the Labour Party step in?
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The Costa living crisis
Brexit has grounded the ‘snowbirds’ who headed for Spanish holiday homes each winter – and ended dreams of expat life in the sun
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Can Rachel Reeves crack the economy’s biggest problem?
The shadow chancellor is winning rave reviews, but needs to tackle productivity
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The costly rise of the high street casino
An 89-year-old German is bringing 24-hour gambling to Britain’s town centres. Can he be stopped?
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Keir Starmer’s trade trap
No, renegotiating with the EU won’t bring a swift end to red tape – and Labour should not pretend it will
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The gift that keeps on giving
Brexit does have benefits – but not for any of us
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The truth about tax: It’s going to keep rising and there’s nothing we can do about it
After years of Tory gaslighting, Britain needs to come to terms with reality
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The Tories are selling out British business
Voters have turned their backs on the government, and now industry is following suit
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Our pensions are the tip of the iceberg
A disaster is coming: we aren’t saving enough for retirement, our state system is broken and our politicians are too scared to act
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After the impact of the austerity, growth must be everything
A Labour government will need money so that vital public services don’t fall through the cracks
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Britain has fallen into the productivity trap
We can measure it, but does it measure us? Productivity needs to take into account our values as well as our economic goals
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The pension triple lock is bad politics that Britain can no longer afford
Part of George Osborne’s poisonous legacy, the money would be better targeted at poorer OAPs
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Is Germany really doomed?
Brexiteers are looking at the country’s crisis with glee. But their schadenfreude might just be misplaced
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Liz Truss performed a public service – she showed just how dangerous the Tory right’s dreams are in practice
The former PM may have gone but the nonsense economics she inflicted on us are still cheered by some
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Last chance saloon: How Brexit is destroying the hospitality industry
Our pubs and restaurants can’t find enough employees, and the government is doing nothing about it
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Winter is coming
Higher costs, higher interest rates, weak growth, war in Europe, China faltering – the only way out might be via a recession
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The Tory right demands tax cuts for the rich. Britain can’t afford them – but naturally, they’re on their way
Jeremy Hunt is ready to cave in and reduce inheritance tax to keep grumbling Conservatives onside
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Germansplaining: Work, holidays and the myth of Teutonic efficiency
The stereotype of hard-working Germans doesn’t hold up under scrutiny – no other country in Europe offers more paid time off
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Is there light at the end of Britain’s economic tunnel?
Despite what Rishi Sunak says about falling inflation, there is more economic pain to come