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Larry Elliott

Larry Elliott

The Guardian

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Germany and France are in crisis – is the next global financial crash brewing?

19.12.2024 7

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Larry Elliott

It’s not bigotry to worry about migration – the latest figures tell a complex story

11.12.2024 6

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The Tories are deluded to think they’ll be back in power in 2029. Here are three economic reasons why

Business confidence is plunging. Retailers are slashing prices in an attempt to drum up sales. Higher energy bills have arrived amid continued anger...

03.10.2024 20

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Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept

It is always a sign that politicians are rattled when they start coming up with ludicrous explanations for ill thought-through decisions that stir up...

05.09.2024 100

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The violence is shocking but not surprising: Britain’s economy makes it ripe for far-right thuggery

Rachel Reeves has been in the US this week trying to lure investment into the UK. Good luck with that, chancellor. With racist riots occurring...

08.08.2024 70

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Rachel Reeves says the UK’s public finances are in a dire state – but here’s why I’m cautiously optimistic

A Labour government that comes to power after a prolonged period of unbroken Conservative rule. A sense in the country that something has gone...

10.07.2024 10

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Brexit may have felt absent from this election – but it will still define it

It is one of the oddities of this weirdest of election campaigns that the issue that helped give the Conservatives an 80-seat majority in 2019 has...

26.06.2024 8

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If Labour wins a 1945-style landslide, it will have no excuse for playing it safe

Labour knows what it is like to inherit an economic mess. It did so in 1974, when Britain was on the verge of a period of high inflation and rising...

30.05.2024 90

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Claims that British unions harm economic growth have one tiny flaw. They’re 100% wrong

Profiteering is nothing new. Stanley Baldwin had a pithy description for the new intake of Conservative MPs at the 1918 general election, noting that...

16.05.2024 60

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Why are billionaires scared of Brazil’s plan to hit them with a global tax? Because it makes perfect sense

The idea is simple. There are about 3,000 billionaires in the world and in recent years they have been getting richer and richer. Demands on hard-up...

02.05.2024 60

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The doomsters were wrong about the minimum wage. They’re wrong about Labour’s new deal for workers, too

It will cost jobs. It will harm the UK’s competitiveness. It will make the labour market less flexible. For those with long enough memories, the...

04.04.2024 20

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on conspiracy theories around the Princess of Wales – cartoon

21.03.2024 90

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Rachel Reeves is staking it all on economic growth. So where’s her plan to achieve it?

The pursuit of growth is an obsession for politicians the world over. Olaf Scholz thinks more growth would make him a more popular German chancellor....

20.03.2024 10

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The manifesto Britain needs Britain’s economy is deeply flawed. These are the three pledges Labour must make to fix it

It is a statement of the obvious that Britain’s economy has deep structural flaws that are badly in need of fixing. A chronic balance of payments...

13.02.2024 40

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The unexpected message from the US for Keir Starmer: it’s not just the economy, stupid

This November’s presidential election ought to be a doddle for Joe Biden. Fears of recession have receded. More Americans have jobs than ever...

24.01.2024 10

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Labour will be taking a risk sticking by its £28bn green energy plan. It should do it anyway

It’s official: 2023 was the hottest year since records began and by some distance. The Earth is now 1.48C warmer than it was before the dawn of the...

11.01.2024 10

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It’s easy to condemn ‘eat out to help out’, but Sunak’s motivations were justified

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It is always easy to spot the schoolboy error and be an expert on what should have been done. The inquiry into...

14.12.2023 20

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I’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn’t. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream

Brexit is a dead issue at Westminster. There are any number of issues where it is hard to separate Labour and the Conservatives, and the reluctance to...

05.12.2023 6

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