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“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee

We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

The Budget: the main points The Chancellor majored on ...

And so it goes on. The government is to reconsider its decision not to compensate women hit by changes to the state-pension age. Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary at the time who made that

Issue of the week: on the precipice Even ...