Budget 2023
Military sites to house asylum seekers to meet ‘essential living needs and nothing more’, says minister – as it happened
Yvette Cooper criticises announcement as immigration minister says asylum seekers may also be housed on ships
Andrew Sparrow
29, Mar, 2023 @4:33 PM
Millennial generation despairs of being able to afford to retire
We asked them a simple question: How much do you pay into a private pension? The answers that came back were stark
Jedidajah Otte
27, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
There’s more to life than work – as everyone but the Tories and Kim Kardashian knows | John Harris
While Britons increasingly value life outside the daily grind, the government is pursuing a class-based approach to kicking people back to work, writes Guardian columnist John Harris
John Harris
26, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM
Jeremy Hunt has left the UK to rot in poverty. So we must take matters into our own hands | Gordon Brown
With hygiene banks now joining food banks and clothes banks, I’m calling on retailers to take drastic action and help their poorest customers, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
24, Mar, 2023 @11:22 AM
‘Money is a constant worry and it’s infecting everything’: one family’s experience of the soaring UK cost of living
With food prices increasing at their fastest rate in 45 years, we hear how one family is coping with the financial pressure
Zoe Wood and Ashley Kirk
22, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
Hunt’s jobs drive will push mothers on benefits to work 30-hour week
Exclusive: Single mothers of three-year-olds will be disproportionately hit by ‘unconscionable’ policy, say charities and academics
Alexandra Topping and Patrick Butler
22, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM
Pension pot offer won’t fix NHS workforce crisis | Letters
Letters: The focus must be on retaining existing staff and reducing private sector work, writes consultant haematologist John Hanley. Plus letters from Robin Davies, Jo Pike and Orest Mulka
21, Mar, 2023 @5:43 PM
Hunt’s pensions tax break expected to help ‘nearly as many bankers as doctors’
Head of Resolution Foundation says other measures to retain NHS staff could have offered better value for money
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
21, Mar, 2023 @4:04 PM
Sunak cares nothing for the 99% – and after his pensions hike for the rich, they know it | Polly Toynbee
The PM and his chancellor thought they could hide the greed in plain sight, but focus groups show voters are aware – and angry, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
21, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM
After the budget, here’s how to hand yourself a better pension
Jeremy Hunt’s overhaul of pension rules has been criticised for favouring the rich, but what can the rest of us do to improve our retirement situation?
Shane Hickey
20, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
Doubts grow over number of NHS doctors helped by pension giveaway
New figures reveal only 100 hospital doctors left NHS in 2022 due to voluntary early retirement, despite claims by Jeremy Hunt
Aubrey Allegretti
19, Mar, 2023 @6:00 PM
‘This will be the end of nurseries’: preschools in England warn of closures amid free childcare expansion plan
Jeremy Hunt has been told his budget giveaway will have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on early years learning without more funding
Michael Savage Policy Editor
19, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
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