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Spring statement 2022

May 2022

  • Flame on a gas hob

    Gap between inflation rates for richest and poorest households at its widest in 16 years

    With the poorest disproportionately hit by the cost of living crisis, senior Tories are demanding emergency action from Treasury
  • ‘We’ve got to act and act fast’: Stuart Rose, chairman of Asda

    Tory peer calls for welfare boost to counter cost of living crisis

    Asda chairman Stuart Rose says universal credit uplift and honesty over Brexit are crucial to combat ‘national economic emergency’
  • Rishi Sunak leaves Downing Street on the day of the spring statement

    Rishi Sunak says technical problems stopped him raising benefits more

    Chancellor blames DWP computers that allow uplift only once a year, in claims labelled ‘pathetic’ by Jonathan Ashworth

April 2022

  • Rishi Sunak, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer poses for the media as he leaves 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons where he will later deliver the Spring Statement to the house in London, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

    Sunak must impose a windfall tax on oil firms – even if only to save his career

    Phillip Inman
  • Carsten Jung

    If the rest of Europe can protect the poorest from rising bills, why can’t Britain?

    Carsten Jung
  • Buses on the North Yorkshire coast between Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Whitby.

    Quarter of bus routes axed in England in last decade

  • Richard Partington

    Economics viewpoint
    Sunak pours scorn on the OBR’s dire warnings – but the facts speak for themselves

    Richard Partington

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak being asked to do more about the cost of living crisis – cartoon

  • Even now, Sunak and the Tories cannot let austerity go

    William Keegan

  • Energy price rise: Rishi Sunak needs to do more, say experts

29 March 2022

  • Rishi Sunak arrives to attend a Service of Thanksgiving for Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in central London.

    The Guardian view on Sunak and the poor: an abdication of responsibility

    Editorial: Loan sharks and economic predators will profit from the chancellor’s indifference to the fate of the least well-off

28 March 2022

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    ‘Do you think people are stupid?’ Sunak shrugged. Of course he did

    John Crace
  • Rishi Sunak

    Sunak says spring statement is ‘progressive’ in response to criticism from MPs

  • BRITAIN-POLITICS-ECONOMY-BUDGET<br>A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaking to the Commons Treasury Committee about last week's spring budget statement in London on March 28, 2022. - Sunak is being accused of being out of touch with ordinary voters, in a sudden fall from grace just months after he was tipped as the next prime minister. (Photo by Handout / PRU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / PRU " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/PRU/AFP via Getty Images)

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    ‘Do you think people are stupid?’ MPs challenge Sunak over income tax cut planned for election year – as it happened

  • A man is seen collecting food parcels on March 02, 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland

    How families in Britain have been left hungry and in crisis

27 March 2022

  • Will Hutton

    For brazen cynicism, I have seen nothing like Sunak’s plan in 40 years

    Will Hutton
  • Rishi Sunak

    Rishi Sunak ‘protecting Treasury from inflation at families’ expense’

  • Rishi Sunak borrowed a car for a photo opportunity at a Sainsbury’s forecourt.

    Tories fall back on tribal pull of Brexit

    Robert Ford
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak delivering his spring statement in parliament.

    The Observer view on Rishi Sunak’s spring statement

25 March 2022

  • Hannah Jane Parkinson

    Pool sliders, charm bracelets and a Kia Rio … the rise and fall of Brand Rishi

    Hannah Jane Parkinson
    It’s hard to convincingly look like a man of the people while you’re busy impoverishing the public, says the Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson
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