Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker are asking Andy Burnham to tax their wealth more. More than 100 wealthy Brits have signed an open letter to the prime minister, saying: ‘We want …
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229,000 excess deaths: the cost of US-UK trade deal? - The Latest ○
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The NHS will divert billions of pounds from essential services to pay for new medicines, under the terms of the US-UK trade deal agreed in December, which could lead to more than 200,000 excess death…
26 days ago
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty ⊖
This shadowy treaty on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest
For all the crowd noise and heavy-breathing match analysis, Bri…
33 days ago
It’s not the bond markets Andy Burnham should be afraid of. It’s his own MPs | Aditya Chakrabortty ⊕
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To stay popular with the public – and his backbenchers – he’ll need to make big changes fast. That means changing the way the government borrows
A Labour leader arrives, shirt and smile ironed into pl…
35 days ago
‘I feel entirely vindicated’: three Guardian columnists debate Brexit and its legacy | Aditya Chakrabortty, Polly Toynbee and Simon Jenkins ⊖
Ten years on, our writers met to reflect on whether leaving the EU has made the UK richer or more racist – and how the union is doing without us
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Ten years on, we’re living with the ghosts of Brexit. Reform and Restore know that – the rest are playing catch-up | Aditya Chakrabortty ⊖
Starmer’s EU reset is aimed at the conference room. Meanwhile Farage and the hard right mine ethnic resentment on the streets
What story does Britain tell itself about Brexit, 10 years after the vote …
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Zombie Blairites still have British politics in their grip – it’s time to break free | Aditya Chakrabortty ⊕⊕
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Tony Blair’s departure as PM should have prompted a fresh start for Labour. But Starmer’s sad, backward-looking government remains in his thrall
Now half term is over, let’s have a quick quiz. Readin…
75 days ago
As Westminster rages, and Labour sinks into civil war: what about the people? | Aditya Chakrabortty ○
Voters are desperate for a turnaround in living standards. The runners and riders for the Labour leadership must address this
“Westminster is a cocoon. Lots of people in lovely jobs, so it becomes eas…
82 days ago
As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the 'adults in the room’ line again | Aditya Chakrabortty ⊕
Presenting himself as a serious, sensible ‘grownup’ was essential to Starmer’s rise to power. His premiership has revealed how hollow that message is
Some big questions will be asked this weekend – ab…
89 days ago
Labour is facing wipeout in its final stronghold. Why? It’s housing, housing, housing | Aditya Chakrabortty ⊖
In the 1980s, Labour-controlled London built 52,000 council homes. During the Tony Blair decade, just 280. It’s brought this local-election catastrophe on itself
Over the week to come, journalists wil…