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Britain’s intergenerational unfairness: reality or myth?
It’s been a week of results: economic data that lays the path for a steep rise in the state pension, followed by A-Level results that saw tens of tho…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Tories’ battle over asylum seekers
After months of delay and safety concerns, the first asylum seekers were marched up the gangplank of the Bibby Stockholm barge this week. If they don…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rishi Sunak’s dash for oil and gas
Rishi Sunak calculates that by portraying himself as “on the side” of motorists and adopting a “pragmatic and proportionate” approach to climate chan…
2 years, 7 months ago
The end of the green consensus?
Rishi Sunak has signalled he plans to soften his eco policies to avoid heaping extra “hassle” and expense on the British public. The FT’s Lucy Fisher…
2 years, 7 months ago
By-elections special: Tories face double blow, but avoid 3-0 drubbing
The Conservatives faced a rout in both Selby and Somerton, but is their narrow win in Uxbridge enough to lift the party’s mood? Lucy Fisher is joined…
2 years, 7 months ago
Are the Tories stuck in a 'doom loop'?
Miranda Green is joined by FT columnists Stephen Bush and Robert Shrimsley to ask whether there’s any way out of the economic and political "doom loo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Keir Starmer’s bid to smash the class ceiling
As Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer sketches out his vision for education, the FT’s Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher is joined by columnists Stephen Bush a…
2 years, 8 months ago
The crisis facing the UK water industry
Pressure is growing on the UK’s water sector, as swelling debt threatens to overwhelm Thames Water and other companies. What is the remedy for the co…
2 years, 8 months ago
Inflation pain: who will UK voters blame?
Soaring interest rates are alarming mortgage holders and could derail the UK government’s strategy for re-election. This week Lucy Fisher is joined b…
2 years, 8 months ago
The damning verdict on Boris Johnson
The blistering report into Boris Johnson’s behaviour by the House of Commons privileges committee casts doubt over his political future. The FT’s Whi…
2 years, 8 months ago