Budget

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

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

Lack of data makes government claims about English childcare ‘meaningless’

Only 15% of local councils collect data on proportion of parents who are able to access sufficient childcare

Carmen Aguilar García and Sarah Marsh

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

The 30 hours’ free childcare in Jeremy Hunt’s budget could bring about real change | Torsten Bell

Research suggests it may boost female employment by up to 60,000 – another contributor to the slow death of patriarchy

Torsten Bell

19, Mar, 2023 @9:31 AM

‘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

Jeremy Hunt’s expansion of free childcare in England is too good to be true

The budget announcement won’t benefit everyone and risks driving providers out of business

Hannah Peaker