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Rachel Reeves: destroyer of jobs

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Michael Simmons

Money / The Budget that could make, or break, Starmer’s government

Money /					 													 						The Budget that could make, or break, Starmer’s government
03.09.2025 8

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How bad is the UK bond crisis?

How bad is the UK bond crisis?
02.09.2025 4

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The coming crash: the markets have had enough

28.08.2025 10

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Drug bust / Why your weight loss jab is ballooning in price

Drug bust /					 													 						Why your weight loss jab is ballooning in price
25.08.2025 10

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Why your weight loss jab is ballooning in price

22.08.2025 10

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Britain is being pulled under by debt

21.08.2025 7

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Why your weight loss jab is ballooning in price

21.08.2025 5

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Britain owes America for its ‘free’ healthcare

21.08.2025 8

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Is inflation here to stay?

20.08.2025 20

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GDP growth proves the Bank of England’s mistakes

15.08.2025 10

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Rachel Reeves must pull Britain from its doom loop

14.08.2025 3

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Scotland / Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s real legacy

11.08.2025 40

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Has the Bank of England forgotten what its job is?

07.08.2025 30

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Has Rachel Reeves created a £50 billion fiscal black hole?

06.08.2025 5

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Trade off / Trump’s tariffs are taming China

30.07.2025 2

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Economics / The US-China trade war is not over yet

29.07.2025 5

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Britain is broke

22.07.2025 20

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Why Reeves should sell her bitcoin hoards

20.07.2025 9

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Rachel Reeves’s tax raid is to blame for rising unemployment

17.07.2025 8

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Broke Britain: how the Bank of England wrecked the economy

17.07.2025 40

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Money / Rising inflation shows how the Bank of England is failing

16.07.2025 7

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Reeves’s Mansion House delusion

16.07.2025 30

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Tax rises are inevitable

11.07.2025 6

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Kemi is right. The benefits bill could cripple Britain

10.07.2025 4

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BMA / The doctors’ strike is unforgivable

09.07.2025 7

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Britain is heading for economic catastrophe

08.07.2025 6

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How the Home Office created the Boriswave

04.07.2025 9

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I feel sorry for Rachel Reeves

02.07.2025 5

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Will the welfare bill really push 150,000 into poverty?

01.07.2025 10

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Britain is facing a doomy economic future

30.06.2025 10

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Revealed / The dodgy data undermining Universal Credit

28.06.2025 4

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Revealed: the dodgy data undermining Universal Credit

27.06.2025 6

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Britain is racing towards a fresh cost-of-living crisis

25.06.2025 3

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Britain is paying for Reeves’s non-dom tax disaster

24.06.2025 4

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Why the Bank of England may welcome job losses

19.06.2025 10

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Why is the ONS saying inflation has gone down?

18.06.2025 5

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Rachel Reeves’s non-dom crackdown has truly backfired

17.06.2025 10

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The good and bad news about the UK-US trade deal

17.06.2025 20

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Why the Israel-Iran war could raise your taxes

15.06.2025 3

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Paul Johnson: The spending review was ‘incomprehensible’

14.06.2025 4

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Reeves needs to tell the public that they’re wrong

13.06.2025 8

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Rachel Reeves’ spending plans are already in doubt

12.06.2025 2

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OnlyFans is giving HMRC what it wants

12.06.2025 7

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NHS the only winner in Reeves’s spending review

11.06.2025 5

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Labour’s National Insurance hike is starting to bite

10.06.2025 10

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