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  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The NHS needs a no-taboos review

    Structure and funding of the UK health system should be re-examined for a new era

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity

    A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Can the UK government afford to increase public sector pay?

    Prime minister claims offers are ‘fair’ but experts say £28bn estimate on cost of big rises is misleading

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    UK employment
    UK private sector wage growth accelerates

    Pay rose 6.9% in three months to October but fell in real terms because of inflation

  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    Martin Wolf
    The UK government’s policy on public sector pay is foolish

    Letting inflation reduce real wages while expecting services to be maintained is dishonest

  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    Backlog Britain: How public sector delays spiralled to record levels

    Pandemic pressures combined with long-term cuts have left vital services under chronic strain

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    UK government spending
    Hunt plans post-election squeeze on spending with ‘Austerity 2.0’

    Day-to-day spending on public services to be frozen in real terms for three years from 2025

  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    Sarah O'Connor
    Hunt still has a fiscal hole to fill, but Britain’s fabric is fraying

    After a decade of austerity, public services are not an easy target to cut

  • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
    James Kirkup
    Public services will wither unless the UK makes hard tax choices

    The Truss camp’s calls to ‘roll back the frontiers of the state’ invite the question: to where?

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Free LunchChris Cook
    The UK lacks a clear plan for fighting inflation Premium content

    Don’t try to tame price rises by using public services as an anchor

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    News in-depth
    UK government produces public sector pay offer that pleases no one

    Partial concession leaves workers unhappy and managers facing tough decisions

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    UK employment
    UK private sector pay grows five times as fast as public wages

    Figures come as unions threaten strikes if government holds wage rises below 5%

  • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
    UK labour disputes
    Millions of British public sector workers to be offered 5% pay rise

    Revised deal comes as below-inflation offers across economy look set to trigger months of strikes

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Johnson’s plan to cut civil service risks ‘adverse impacts’, memo says

    Departments will need to ‘consider reprioritisation’ of existing plans, say Treasury and Cabinet Office

  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
    Stagecoach Group PLC
    Stagecoach agrees rival £595mn offer from DWS in blow to National Express

    Bid sends Scottish bus operator’s shares up nearly 40% as board recommends pulling out from planned merger

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    National Health Service
    NHS on ‘unsustainable financial trajectory’, says Sajid Javid

    ‘Small-state Tory’ says sectors from education to infrastructure will suffer without reform

  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    The future case for a ‘retro’ policy: public sector reform

    Both Labour and the Conservatives have a political motive to reach for an idea that has fallen out of fashion

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    Taxing energy profits won’t be the windfall politicians hope for

    Proposed levy would only raise the cost of capital for the companies we rely on to transform our future energy supply

  • Monday, 29 November, 2021
    Martin Wolf
    We must accept higher taxes to fund health and social care

    The government’s response to immediate pressures on the system is inadequate and indefensible

  • Monday, 25 October, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s chancellor should go for growth

    Dismal outlook means spending needs to focus on lifting potential output

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    UK tax
    Surge in workers unwittingly put into ‘tax avoidance’ arrangements

    Supply teachers and agency nurses among those put into umbrella company schemes

  • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Britain’s unhealthy appetite for financial risk in essential services

    Crisis has exposed risk-taking and muddled boundary between public and private

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
    Izabella Kaminska
    Private sector rationing of access to open spaces may be on the cards

    As the coronavirus lockdown continues, one golf course is allowing families to book walking time slots

  • Friday, 14 February, 2020
    UK Budget
    Rishi Sunak under pressure from No 10 to relax fiscal rules in Budget

    Sajid Javid had insisted on discipline but Downing Street wants more leeway to borrow

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2019
    ExplainerUK general election
    Boris Johnson to spend £100bn on cementing his red wall

    PM eyes projects for voters who ditched Labour and backed Tories

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