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Phillip Inman

Phillip Inman is economics editor of the Observer and an economics writer for the Guardian. He is the author of Managing Your Debt, a Which? essential guide; and the Guardian e-book The Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Here?

June 2024

  • Babies in a hospital nursery. In 2022 the fertility rate across England and Wales fell to 1.49 children per woman.

    The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks where they saw trains being loaded with goods from around the world and later held a Q&amp;A with workers. The two were campaigning in the south of England for next month’s General Election on July4. Picture date: Monday June 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    A Norway deal? Rejoining? What are Labour’s options for forging closer ties with Europe?

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits a construction site in York last week.

    Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

  • People walk in front of the Bank of England building

    Bank of England keeps interest rates at 5.25% in ‘finely balanced’ decision

  • Business live
    Pound falls as UK interest rates left on hold in ‘finely balanced’ decision – as it happened

  • 14 years of Tory rule – in data
    The economy: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tory government ‘worst in postwar era’, claims expert study – as it happened

  • UK inflation: which everyday items have fallen in price most?

  • Labour says pressure on family finances still acute as UK inflation falls to 2%

  • Investment in UK has trailed other G7 countries since mid-1990s, IPPR says

  • How to reverse austerity? Scrap some of the tax-relief schemes worth £204bn

  • Observer business agenda
    Struggle to damp down inflation leaves Tories’ election hopes high and dry

  • Caution, not grand plans, is needed if Labour is to build wealth in Britain

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  • Why government debt is not like household borrowing

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happened

  • UK economy flatlines in blow to Rishi Sunak’s hopes of recovery

  • Poor investment in UK regional cities curbed economic growth, report finds

  • UK unemployment is up, but wage rises make early interest rate cut less likely

  • UK unemployment rising at fastest pace of OECD countries, analysis shows

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

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