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Spending review 2020

December 2020

  • The chancellor, Rishi Sunak

    With a deal done, can No 10 turn ‘levelling up’ into more than a nebulous phrase?

    Isabel Hardman
    The government’s strategy for solving the north-south divide is dangerously vague. ‘Red wall’ MPs are right to be worried

30 November 2020

  • John Maynard Keynes pictured at his home in London in 1929.

    The Guardian view on a national infrastructure bank: proving Keynes right again

    Editorial: The question is not whether the state picks losers, but whether government failure is better – or worse – than the market failure it seeks to correct

29 November 2020

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Rishi Sunak reverted to Tory type when he chose to leave the world’s poor behind

    Andrew Rawnsley
    By severely squeezing international aid and freezing public sector wages, the chancellor began to reveal his true ideological colours
  • British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 25: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, the leaves the Downing Street to announce the 2020 Spending Review alongside the Office For Budget Responsibilitys Latest Economic And Fiscal Forecast in the House of Commons in London, United Kingdom on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Business leader
    The Treasury must release more money – and relinquish more control

    Sunak’s plan to pinch pennies in a pandemic is unwise. But the bigger problem is the centralisation of his spending projects
  • Pandemic food bank

    The Observer view on Rishi Sunak's callous spending review

    This short-sighted chancellor has short-changed those most at risk

27 November 2020

  • Richard Vize

    Rishi Sunak's failure to give councils the funding they need will cost lives

    Richard Vize
    Spending review’s ‘pork barrel’ handouts mark a new low in the blinkered relationship between central and local government
  • Home-seekers in Leek, Staffordshire view an estate agent window

    Covid crisis watch
    UK's economy suffers in November but Covid vaccine hopes ease gloom

    Our latest snapshot of key economic indicators shows travel down and inflation up amid double-dip recession
  • A near-empty Circle line tube train as England entered its second lockdown.

    Covid crisis watch
    Coronavirus vaccine results drive hope for economic recovery

    Guardian analysis shows retail sales booming and financial markets picking up around world

26 November 2020

  • Polly Toynbee

    How are unemployed people supposed to retrain when the Tories cut training?

    Polly Toynbee
    A joblessness crisis is here. But despite its promises, the government is doing the bare minimum, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Dominic Raab

    Dominic Raab says legislation is needed to cut UK aid spending

    Foreign secretary says it is not known when 0.7% target, set in law, will be restored

    • 'Build back better'? Sunak's spending review will further impoverish Britain

      John McDonnell

    • Sunak's Covid rescue plan 'will fail to help long-term wage stagnation'

    • UK aid cuts 'unprincipled, unjustified and harmful', say experts and MPs

25 November 2020

  • Rishi Sunak

    Spending review 2020: the winners and losers in Sunak's statement

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    The green bank went south; let's hope Sunak's new version succeeds

    Nils Pratley
  • Rishi Sunak

    Rishi Sunak says Covid economic emergency has only just begun

  • Emergency services at the scene of a fire in London in February.

    Pay freeze for millions of UK workers ‘a kick in the teeth’, say unions

  • 'Got to make cuts somewhere': Maltby gives Sunak benefit of the doubt

  • ‘Twisted priorities’: SNP criticises Sunak's spending review

  • Rishi Sunak’s £4.8bn ‘levelling-up’ UK fund met with scepticism

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