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Helen Thomas

The Telegraph

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Only a new leader can save Labour now

Only a new leader can save Labour now

Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to protect welfare spending. Starmer and Reeves have a majority but not a mandate and are too weak...

21.11.2025 1

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Reeves and Starmer are now at the mercy of the markets

Reeves and Starmer are now at the mercy of the markets

Rachel Reeves could be given a lifeline if OBR downgrades are better than expected. A government elected on competence and stability may now gamble...

14.11.2025 4

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Reeves may reassure the markets, but her political future is at risk

Reeves may reassure the markets, but her political future is at risk

Rachel Reeves is looking to introduce planning reforms to boost growth prospects ahead of the Budget. Reeves’ speech was intended to steady...

07.11.2025 2

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Keir Starmer may not survive this Budget

Keir Starmer's business adviser is reportedly being considering to become the UK's ambassador in the US. The Prime Minister cannot satisfy all...

31.10.2025 5

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Regulation isn’t what’s holding business back – it’s tax

Reeves eyes NIC raid The Chancellor has promised to “boldly regulate for growth” but that’s easy to say and costs nothing. The UK’s problem...

24.10.2025 2

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In Tokyo, Paris and London, political risk is on the rise

TOKYO, JAPAN – OCTOBER 4: Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected leader of Japan’s ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), attends a press...

10.10.2025 3

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Labour is in denial about the economy

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 29: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks on stage while Prime Minister Keir Starmer listens during day...

03.10.2025 3

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Will the Labour party survive its conference?

The Prime Minister said “change has started” as he arrived at the Liverpool conference centre. The left, just like the right, is a broad but...

26.09.2025 2

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Sidelining Reeves now is a big gamble

Keir Starmer’s mini reshuffle has sidelined Rachel Reeves just as the markets need a show of faith, writes Helen Thomas It only took one year, two...

05.09.2025 10

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Official statistics have become useless

Image generated by Google Gemini The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings in how we measure everything, from inflation to GDP to jobs, says Helen...

08.08.2025 9

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Trump’s gambit: play by his rules or lose

President Trump wants his Turnberry resort to host the Open for the first time since he bought it The US-EU trade deal signals a new geopolitical...

31.07.2025 2

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Rachel Reeves is lost in space

Image generated by Google Gemini Rachel Reeves said was steering the economy past a black hole but her calculations are off and we’re heading for...

25.07.2025 8

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Does Rachel Reeves believe in capitalism?

Rachel Reeves ploughed ahead with her party’s changes to the non-dom regime at last year’s Autumn Budget The Chancellor can’t do the biggest...

18.07.2025 4

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Something fiscal this way comes: Reeves haunted by ghosts of Truss and the OBR

Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces dealing with spiralling triple lock state pension payments. Haunted by the legacy of Truss and bound by the warnings...

11.07.2025 7

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Markets are ignoring global instability – but a reckoning looms

Cavendish has rejected private equity interest in the firm. Despite simmering political crises and looming economic risks, markets are riding a...

04.07.2025 3

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Rumours of the dollar’s demise have been greatly exaggerated

For financial investors, the typical response would be to invest in a deeply liquid safe haven asset. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett-Pool/Getty Images) ...

20.06.2025 8

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Our economy remains in a perilous state

Consumers, like markets, are evidently unconvinced of the promised sunlit uplands ahead. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) With the long-awaited...

13.06.2025 10

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Trump’s Liberation Day has delivered what he loves most: Phone calls

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Like all businessmen, Trump loves being on the phone. Liberation Day was a grab for attention, and boy did it...

05.04.2025 10

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