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How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else

The lesson from Manchester is that it takes time for public investment policies to show up in GDP

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Don’t pretend jokes can’t lead to political violence

The taboo around political violence is fraying — but restricting speech is not the answer

sunday 10

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There is no modern-day Maggie to save Britain from Burnhamism

The right hopes that Labour’s new leader will fail, but who exactly is going to step in and shake things up?

30.07.2026 10

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Burnham can be the failure that Britain needs

Big government must be tested to destruction for serious reform to finally happen

22.07.2026 20

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The FT View. Andy Burnham’s tenure begins with troubling signals

Britain needs to revive animal spirits, not return to a statist past

20.07.2026 20

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Labour has handed Burnham a blank cheque

The new premier’s MPs think they have backed a winner but have no idea what his programme will be

20.07.2026 10

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Why ‘rightwing’ is no longer such a dirty word in Britain

When words like fascist and Nazi are thrown around, being merely conservative seems mild by comparison

19.07.2026 10

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The FT View. Britain’s Burnham and nostalgia for a semi-imaginary past

The new prime minister has to set out a coherent and business-friendly platform

17.07.2026 20

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Andy Burnham will find that hope is not enough to govern

Once in Downing Street, the new prime minister should tell the Labour Party what it doesn’t want to hear

17.07.2026 10

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The political fast lane keeps making the same scandal mistake

A story might be reported to no great acclaim for months before it finally blows up in the public consciousness

14.07.2026 20

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The long electoral lineage of Count Binface

Parody candidates are a well-established tradition in Britain’s political panto

11.07.2026 30

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Don’t underestimate Farage in this Very British Farce

The “establishment” he is so fond of bashing must beware of playing into stereotype

10.07.2026 20

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Andy Burnham needs to start by understanding how little he knows

Even if he could do all he wants, it would be unlikely to solve the UK’s growth problem

06.07.2026 20

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Burnham must learn from Starmer’s failures on UK growth

There are moments to prioritise other things, but after 18 years of historic economic slowdown this is not one of them

04.07.2026 30

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Andy Burnham’s Ed Miliband test

The choice of chancellor will reveal the likely character of the government and the extent of any new radicalism

25.06.2026 30

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Burnham might just have what it takes to see off Farage

The policy differences between his future premiership and Starmer’s will be small but significant

23.06.2026 30

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Britain needs more than better leadership. Here’s how we get it

A modern democracy should have a way to decide together what matters most

22.06.2026 20

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Waiting for Andy: what will a Burnham premiership mean?

It is the threat of Reform UK that has so panicked Labour MPs

22.06.2026 20

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The FT View. We need to talk about Brexit

Britain must rebuild EU ties, but trying to rejoin would for now be a diversion

21.06.2026 20

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Andy Burnham will need to play a new card now

His winning campaign in Makerfield was long on hope but a vague prospectus won’t be enough in Number 10

19.06.2026 30

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Andy Burnham and the search for hope in a hopeless Britain

The alternative is despair and the uglier politics that heralds

18.06.2026 20

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The FT View. Britain’s questionable reliance on Palantir

Government should use the best technology for any task, but be wary of ‘lock-ins’

07.06.2026 30

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Electoral reform for the UK? Don’t bet on it

Fractured party politics and enthusiasm from Labour’s hopefuls are not a sign of imminent proportional voting

03.06.2026 30

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Three ways a new Labour leader could change the politics of growth

The UK needs to confront the policies that have made us poorer

26.05.2026 20

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What is Labour’s ‘soft left’ anyway?

The UK governing party’s hard-to-define faction is newly powerful

22.05.2026 30

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Burnham’s not the messiah. He’s old Labour’s last throw

Being a new face gets you a hearing but doesn’t change the economic picture

21.05.2026 30

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Labour has all too clear a vision

The accusation of vagueness does not fit this straightforwardly leftwing government

20.05.2026 40

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Labour’s lack of intellectual rigour has returned to bite it

Starmer and his party failed to do any hard thinking in opposition and they are now paying the price

19.05.2026 30

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The disintegration of British democracy

We are witnessing the fracturing of the traditional party system that glues our society together

17.05.2026 40

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Voters expect a prosperity our politicians cannot deliver

The markets will not allow the UK to borrow to maintain a standard of living that we have not earned

15.05.2026 30

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Labour’s faultlines are back with a vengeance

The past few weeks have exposed the cracks that Starmer has spent two years trying to paper over

15.05.2026 30

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Burnham’s return to Westminster will not be so easy

The surge of Reform in Makerfield presents a significant challenge

14.05.2026 20

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Britain isn’t ungovernable. It’s just been badly governed

Short-termism and poor choices are to blame for the country’s political predicament

14.05.2026 20

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The FT View. The battle for the soul of Labour

Challenge to Starmer is a perilous moment for the UK and its standing

13.05.2026 30

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There can be no Labour revival if Starmer remains

The prime minister still sounds like an opposition leader

10.05.2026 30

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The new politics may be more like the old politics than we assume

Our electoral system will force consolidation within the left and right blocs

08.05.2026 40

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Welcome to the era of five-party politics

Widespread disillusionment with Labour and the Tories is understandable

08.05.2026 40

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Why I don’t write about the Liberal Democrats

Britain’s third party is being drowned out by noisier insurgents

07.05.2026 40

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The problematic inevitability of Andy Burnham

Labour’s assumptions about its leader-in-waiting are logical but no guarantee of success

30.04.2026 50

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