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Public sector cuts

July 2024

  • Jonathan Clucas, headteacher at Layton Primary School, Blackpool.

    Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

  • Junior doctors hold orange and white placards reading 'pay restoration for doctors'

    Labour must take immediate action to deliver on workers’ rights, says union chief

  • Graphic of people and places in UK

    Path to power
    Hope in short supply: what our election reporters found out as they travelled the UK

  • David Cameron and George Osborne visiting the Marston's Brewery on April 1, 2015 in Wolverhampton, England.

    Austerity was a disastrous political choice that we are still reeling from

May 2024

  • Bryony Bond, in a puffer jacket and with short curly hair, stands in front of a brick building with a mural of swirly plants on it

    ‘A kick in the teeth’: Leeds artists fear loss of spaces is killing cultural scene

    Council spending cuts are forcing studios and venues to close, driving out the city’s creative businesses

April 2024

  • Amanda Richards beside a school playground

    Headteachers forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after cuts in England

    Exclusive: School leaders say they have had to take on additional role as caretaker because they can no longer afford staff
  • Rishi Sunak and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, visit an engineering firm in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 25 March 2024.

    The Guardian view on Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy

    Editorial: A desperate prime minister has given up trying to meaningfully account for the money he is putting into pre-election promises

    • The Guardian view on local councils: they must meet the needs of communities, not just Whitehall

    • From HS2 to the NHS, Britain doesn’t cut costs. Disastrously, it just cuts corners

      Phillip Inman

    • Universities are a vital public asset. We must save them

March 2024

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Rachel Reeves

    The Guardian view on public spending: governments should invest in people as well as things

  • Jeremy Hunt appearing before the Treasury committee

    Hunt says plan to scrap employee national insurance could ‘take more than a decade’

  • Close up shot of doctor counting pulse by holding hand of sick patient.

    The desperate struggle to access NHS treatment

  • ‘Impossible numbers’: where could Jeremy Hunt’s budget cuts fall?

  • How a Conservative budget failed to help women (again)

  • IFS warns of Labour and Tory ‘conspiracy of silence’ over future tax and spending plans

  • Politics Weekly UK
    The Spring Budget: more cuts to come? – Politics Weekly UK

  • Jeremy Hunt defies public services alarm with pre-election budget tax cuts

  • NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS

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