Councils going bust, schools crumbling, the NHS in crisis: the answer is more tax
Labour can raise £50bn from the wealthy to pay for public services without introducing a new one-off wealth tax, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott
‘A harrowing summer’: extreme weather costs hit US as 60m under heat alerts
States face challenges getting federal aid amid dwindling Fema funds and laws that don’t consider heat a climate disaster
The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state
Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
UK workers will be worse off in 2024 than in 2019, thinktank warns
Resolution Foundation predicts average Britons will be 4% poorer but better-off pensioners will be ‘big winners’
Mountain view: Bank top economist offers two routes to beating inflation
Huw Pill says he prefers longer, more steady use of interest rates of Table Mountain model over sharp rise and fall of Matterhorn approach
The Tories let the City run out of control. Now Labour plans to repeat their mistakes
Deregulation and financialisation cause environmental, economic and social harms – but the party aims to give finance even more power, says Mick McAteer, co-director of The Financial Inclusion Centre
Why I joined 70 economists and human rights experts urging Labour to change course
Labour seems spellbound by the Tories’ economically illiterate cult of austerity – but there is another way to help Britain thrive, says Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level
UK faces stark choice of higher taxes or decline in public services, warns IFS
Even if taxes rises are chosen, system needs root-and-branch reforms as all main levies are flawed, finds study
The Guardian view on Tory MPs and tax cuts: the desperate demanding the delusional
Editorial: The Conservative fixation on shrinking the state is fiscally reckless and detached from political reality
Dorries claims she is ‘working daily’ on behalf of her constituents amid calls for her to resign – as it happened
She made the comment in response to repeated claims she is neglecting her duty as an MP
Back from California and Rish! is already drained. Bring on the election
Tired of looking happy and as if he actually cares, the prime minister is ready to be a free man once more
UK factory output tumbles to lowest level in nearly three years
CBI data showing slowdown in activity is latest sign Bank interest rate rises are slowing economy
Keir Starmer: I wouldn’t be able to go to university today
Labour leader says sluggish economy has driven up prices and is holding back students and apprentices
Jeremy Hunt plays down tax cut plans despite lower borrowing than expected
Chancellor says government must not alter course as interest rate rises add to cost of debt
The government’s ‘Treasury brain’ has got the UK in an economic mess. How can we cure it?
Despite all the evidence that privatisation has been a disaster and investment is needed, the department remains in thrall to discredited financial orthodoxy, says Fran Boait of campaign group Positive Money