Budget 2023

‘Heartbreaking’: the nursery forced to close over Hunt’s free childcare policy

Critics say the surprise policy in last spring budget’s was ill-thought-out, prompting higher prices and fewer nurseries

Alexandra Topping

04, Mar, 2024 @4:35 PM

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

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