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  • Saturday, 9 February, 2019
    UK industrial strategy
    The UK must learn from its interventionist failures

    Industrial policy relies on sectoral strategies and subsidies, but that is a huge mistake

  • Friday, 23 March, 2018
    UK labour productivity
    Pay rises will not solve UK’s productivity problem

    The government may have declared victory on living standards, but we have been here before

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
    Martin Wolf
    The expensive truth about high-quality healthcare

    Politicians should admit that to keep a treasured system taxes will have to rise

  • Friday, 9 February, 2018
    UK tax
    Fix NHS finances by abandoning Treasury orthodoxy  

    Voters like a tax earmarked for services they value. We should give it to them

  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2017
    UK Budget
    Hammond passes up a chance to be radical

    The British chancellor played it safe but could still prove to be his party’s saviour

  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2017
    Brexit
    Civil servants lament May’s ‘wasted year’ on Brexit

    Mandarins accuse No 10 of stifling policy debates and alienating EU partners

  • Friday, 16 June, 2017
    UK public finances
    Not the time to fall out of love with austerity

    Like it or not, we cannot wish away our public finance problems

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2017
    UK general election
    Joseph Chamberlain sets Tories a bad example

    On the big national issues of his day, he was on the wrong side of history

  • Monday, 6 March, 2017
    Janan Ganesh
    Hammond’s job is to be the slayer of bad ideas

    The UK chancellor shares the Treasury’s suspicion of grand schemes

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  • Friday, 3 March, 2017
    UK Budget
    Budget shows the power of political theatre

    Some unravel, some prove historic, but all point to a promised land years away

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2017
    Brexit
    May faces calls to appoint pro-Brexit EU ambassador

    Demands follow resignation of ‘frustrated’ Sir Ivan Rogers

  • Friday, 25 November, 2016
    Autumn Statement
    Backstage power struggle in a Whitehall drama

    Chancellor and prime minister are players in a rivalry to pull the economic strings

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2016
    UK politics & policy
    Cameron rewards Osborne in honours list

    More than 50 of former prime minister’s allies included in awards

  • Monday, 11 July, 2016
    UK politics opinion polls
    Europeans would support Scotland joining EU – poll
  • Friday, 8 July, 2016
    Scottish independence
    A stronger case for Scottish independence

    The decision to leave the EU changes terms of debate north of the border, writes Nicholas Macpherson

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2016
    UK economic growth
    Mandarins censured on poor value projects

    Spending watchdog says too many initiatives are allowed to proceed unchallenged

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2016
    UK financial regulation
    Bailey successor at PRA to be unveiled

    Announcement for powerful City job expected within days after completion of interviews

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2016
    UK financial regulation
    FCA seeks strong leader after stormy year

    Chancellor and top candidate in Davos as MPs question City watchdog’s independence

  • Monday, 4 January, 2016
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    Top UK Treasury official to leave in March
  • Friday, 21 August, 2015
    News in-depthGlobal Economy
    UK weathers EM storm but clouds gather

    Good times may not last long amid challenge over foreign demand

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