George Osborne

A quick-fix way for Rachel Reeves to tax the wealthy | Letters

Letters: W Gwyn Thomas on how the chancellor could drum up £40bn, while Stuart Finegan says nothing will change while big businesses and wealthy people hold key influence in politics

09, Dec, 2024 @4:49 PM

George Osborne is a walking ad for a wealth tax. Labour should target the inheritocracy | Polly Toynbee

‘Tax wealth, not work’ would be a powerful message for Starmer and Reeves – are they bold enough to pursue it, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee

03, Dec, 2024 @6:00 AM

George Osborne collects share of £30m after record profits at City advisory firm

Ex-chancellor one of three partners to share sum at Robey Warshaw, co-founded by ‘trillion-dollar man’ Simon Robey

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

28, Nov, 2024 @4:58 PM

‘Daft’ for Streeting to suggest assisted dying law would cost NHS, says former Labour minister - as it happened

Margaret Hodge, the ex-Labour minister who now sits in the Lords, has criticised Wes Streeting on the BBC

Andrew Sparrow

14, Nov, 2024 @5:45 PM

Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened

Former chancellor says ‘increasing borrowing means interest rates would be higher for longer’ as Reeves says it will ‘make space for investment’

Andrew Sparrow

24, Oct, 2024 @4:41 PM

George Osborne backs ‘HS2-lite’ plan for Manchester-Birmingham route

Exclusive: Business leaders seek support for scheme in budget as former chancellor calls it ‘good investment’

Mark Brown North of England correspondent

14, Oct, 2024 @6:00 AM

How to lose weight and influence no one – the Robert Jenrick diet for party leadership | Catherine Bennett

Could a trimmer figure, the quick-fix way, and new hairdo be enough to get the party vote?

Catherine Bennett

24, Aug, 2024 @4:00 PM

The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party | Aditya Chakrabortty

Emergency cuts, empty pockets, a ‘maxed-out credit card’: why is Rachel Reeves using the language and logic of austerity, asks Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty

01, Aug, 2024 @5:00 AM

Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

Limit on support for low-income families, introduced in 2013, said to be pushing people deeper into poverty

Patrick Butler Social policy editor

30, Jul, 2024 @11:00 PM

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’ statement: beyond the Tory black hole | Editorial

Editorial: The chancellor was right to call out her predecessors’ culpability for a disastrous inheritance. But Labour must be bolder

Editorial

29, Jul, 2024 @6:17 PM

Hunt to Hancock: six politicians in the frame in Covid inquiry report

While many of the failings are seen as institutional, the report names some politicians for their role in the crisis

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

18, Jul, 2024 @3:06 PM

UK Covid-19 inquiry: report ‘does not go far enough’ say bereaved families – as it happened

Group says it is ‘relieved’ at many of report’s recommendations but calls for more measures to tackle inequality and improve capacity of public services

Tom Ambrose

18, Jul, 2024 @2:00 PM