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Austerity

The latest news and comment on economic austerity

July 2024

  • Two women in face masks walk past a wall with many hearts drawn on it.

    UK in ‘worse state’ to deal with pandemic than before Covid, say experts

  • Healthcare workers wear PPE during the pandemic

    UK Covid-19 inquiry: report ‘does not go far enough’ say bereaved families – as it happened

  • Covid-19 pandemic inquiry<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY JULY 18 File photo dated 06/10/23 of a member of the public observing the National Covid Memorial Wall, a public mural painted by volunteers to commemorate the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, opposite the Houses of Parliament in London. Failures to properly prepare for a pandemic in the UK are expected to be laid bare on Thursday as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry publishes its first report, which is expected to highlight the UK's focus on preparing for a flu pandemic instead of a coronavirus pandemic. Issue date: Thursday July 18, 2024. PA Photo. Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett will report on how well the UK was able to face a deadly outbreak in the run up to 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic swept across Britain. See PA story INQUIRY Coronavirus. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    Verdict due on impact of Brexit and austerity on Covid-19 response

  • Labour Cuts

    We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous
  • Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by taxing the rich and taxing them hard

    George Monbiot
  • ‘Relentless losses’ leave Edinburgh fringe venues fighting to recover from Covid slump

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s devolution plans: beyond ‘levelling up’

  • William Keegan's in my view
    Keir Starmer ruled out rejoining the EU. Now he must think again

    William Keegan
  • I’m hungry, cold and have multiple disabilities. Does Starmer’s promise of real change include me?

    Marie
  • My generation can barely recall the last time Labour was in power. We need to believe things really can get better

    Isabel Brooks
  • Brief letters
    Families in poverty face a real challenge

  • The Guardian view on polling day: a moment to cherish and nurture democracy

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

June 2024

  • Efe Obada, NFL American football player, on a visit to  Roundwood Youth Centre in Harlesden, north London.

    ‘Youth clubs helped me’: Efe Obada calls for funding for centres for young people

  • Samira Shackle

    The prison and court systems are on the verge of collapse. Why aren’t Labour or the Tories talking about it?

    Samira Shackle
  • Frances Ryan

    Hunger, debt and anguish: all are there at a Midlands baby bank after 14 years of Tory rule

    Frances Ryan
  • Crumpled envelope with the words 'overdue account'.

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How the ‘unforced error’ of austerity wrecked Britain

  • Today in Focus
    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1 – podcast

  • Libraries are a lifeline that we cannot afford to lose

  • 14 years of drawing Tory sleaze and blunder: the life of a political cartoonist – video

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