Economy

The debate over the nation’s economic health has headed off into fantasy land. It needs to come back to reality

His team, Manchester United, won the FA Cup, but still face a tricky rebuild. Also difficult? His views on Brexit

Jeremy Hunt says Labour wants to turn Britain into France. Would that be such a bad idea?

Rachel Reeves is right - the government is gaslighting the country over the economy

There’s a simple way to save our crisis-hit universities. But Rishi Sunak is the only one who can’t see it

Poland’s economy is thriving, thanks to the benefits of being in the EU. No wonder Brexiteers see it as a threat

Affordable housing should be a defining election issue for Britain’s young people

Talk of turning a corner is premature when we’re worse off than this time last year

After Covid, the job fits the employee’s life, not the other way round – how can we handle that shift?

If the Bank of England is right, the reverberations will be felt around the country

Labour should scrap the Tories’ assault on PIP from day one, ending the victimisation of the long-term sick

Welcome to the Sevington Inland Border Facility, the Brexiteers’ gift to Britain

The Mail claims that NHS funding rises prove Brexit’s most notorious slogan was right. They’re wrong again

The prime minister saw a cigarette ban as his final chance to write a positive legacy. Then more Tory chaos left his relaunch in tatters

The Labour shadow foreign minister has written a thoughtful piece in Foreign Affairs – but when it comes to the EU, he’s wrong

With political willpower, 2025 could see London become the test bed for a new generation of rent control powers

Thames Water is a national scandal, but in Wales a not-for-profit counterpart goes from strength to strength

For years, president Erdoğan won almost every election he contested despite a deteriorating economic outlook

Change is needed for the UK’s much-vaunted creative sector to live up to its name

Deceitful Brexiters always knew that a post-Brexit Britain and Singapore would be deeply incompatible

Post-Brexit checks and charges on EU food imports are here – and we’ll soon notice their impact

A plan to lure high achievers is attracting less than 2% of all migrants

Giving business free rein while putting ordinary people on a tight leash is part of a depressing pattern

If it hadn’t been for the civil servants that the Conservatives so gleefully denigrate, Britain would have fallen apart years ago

Rachel Reeves will need to confront failures that others have ignored

As Britain sanctions Chinese cyberattackers, Europe starts to break with Xi’s pet funding project

The eye-catching tractor protests are justified from a stitched-up sector that mostly voted Leave

The only answer to our property problems is unlocking the ability to build more homes

If Reeves’ analysis is correct, her securonomics will eventually pay for itself

Pensioners who have benefited greatly from the triple lock should not get more at everyone else’s expense

If anyone’s “plan” is working, it’s the Bank of England’s

There is an easy way to stop scandals over political donors – by getting rid of them altogether