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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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