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Budget 2017 (November)

February 2018

  • Dame Vivienne Westwood and actor Ralf Little joined yesterday’s march in London in protest at NHS underfunding.

    NHS protest: thousands march to demand more cash for NHS

    Demonstrators rally in London to call for an end to health service budget cuts and constraints

January 2018

  • In his budget in November, Hammond said councils in high need of more housebuilding could bid for an increase in the amount they could borrow to fund construction, up to a total of £1bn.

    Lift councils’ housebuilding cap, say MPs

  • Scientists protest

    Political science
    The government has promised more R&D. Where will the money come from?

    Graeme Reid

December 2017

  • A mock “killer robot” pictured in central London during the launching of a campaign to stop “Killer Robots,” which calls for the ban of lethal robot weapons that would be able to select and attack targets without any human intervention. A group of top tech leaders, including British scientist Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, on July 28, 2015 issued a stern warning against the development of so-called killer robots. Autonomous weapons, which use artificial intelligence to select targets without human intervention, have been described as “the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms,” wrote around 1,000 technology chiefs in an open letter. AFP PHOTO/CARL COURTCARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images

    Political science
    Data will change the world, and we must get its governance right

    Daniel Zeichner
  • Philip Hammond will try to ensure his budget bill passes its second reading in the House of Commons.

    Chancellor faces attempt by MPs to vote down budget

  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    The Brexit ‘patriots’ care little for British history or influence

    William Keegan
  • Woman using laptop

    Social care green paper can deliver if it sees the bigger picture

    Ewan King

30 November 2017

  • Philip Hammond

    Labour leads drive for equality impact assessment of Tory policies

  • Doctor and patient

    Healthcare rationing: what does NHS England intend to do?

29 November 2017

  • The Resolution Foundation said British people are now set to suffer their longest sustained period of falling living standards since records began in the 1950s.

    Budget: prospects for growth are not looking good, and may get worse

    The UK faces the longest period of falling living standards since the 1950s – and that grim forecast is based on Brexit going well

28 November 2017

  • BMW Munich headquarters

    Keep up, Philip Hammond. The UK’s research lags behind

    Martin McQuillan
    The chancellor is turning to universities to bail out the economy. But businesses in the UK need to greatly improve their spending on research

27 November 2017

  • Foodbank tins

    Benefit freeze to stay for working people costing typical family £300 a year

    Tories accused of using royal engagement to bury bad news as welfare freeze remains for another 12 months from April
  • John McDonnell

    John McDonnell had a chance to shine with the budget, but he blew it

    Nicola Murphy
    If Labour really wants to be seen as the government-in-waiting, the shadow chancellor should be able to answer questions about the party’s economic plans, says former government and opposition adviser Nicola Murphy
  • Zoe Williams

    Such is the poverty of Tory ideas that they deny poverty even exists

    Zoe Williams
    It’s amazing how long a nonsensical consensus can survive. But once it starts to disintegrate, it goes very fast, says the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

26 November 2017

  • Nicola Jennings cartoon 27.11.2017

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Britain’s economic outlook and Brexit – cartoon

  • John McDonnell

    Borrowing to invest isn’t burning money – it’s how Labour will fix the economy

    John McDonnell
  • Richard Partington

    Philip Hammond could be putting the UK on course for another recession

    Richard Partington
  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    Economics editors, it’s your job to tell us what’s really behind the budget

    Peter Preston

  • The Observer view on the social care crisis

  • Life is going to turn very nasty if we can’t solve the growth puzzle

    Andrew Rawnsley
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