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UK shoppers, like British businesses, need more reassurance from the chancellor

Frightening retail sales figures mean the Treasury must instil more confidence in struggling firms and consumers

Published: 19 Feb 2021

UK unemployment reaches four-year high in Covid-19 lockdown

Published: 26 Jan 2021

Covid crisis watch New Covid variant and looming Brexit disruption deepen UK economic gloom

Our latest snapshot of key economic indicators show retail sales falling, job losses soaring, GDP growth and stock market stalling

Published: 23 Dec 2020
UK economic rebound came at a price – and there's more to pay

Published: 22 Dec 2020
Will there be runaway inflation next year? Not if wages don't rise

Phillip Inman

Published: 19 Dec 2020

Published: 19 Dec 2020

Covid crisis watch UK's economy suffers in November but Covid vaccine hopes ease gloom

Our latest snapshot of key economic indicators shows travel down and inflation up amid double-dip recession

Published: 1:00 AM

Pay squeeze and tax rises needed in UK to fill £40bn hole in public finances

Weak growth and pressure on NHS and welfare budgets will add to Covid woes, warns IFS thinktank

Published: 12:40 PM

Fall in UK tax receipts and business support fuel record October borrowing

Monthly borrowing hits £22.3bn as Covid crisis forces debt pile up to highest proportion of GDP since 1960s

Published: 5:15 AM

UK recovery on hold owing to Covid second wave, says OBR official

MPs also hear that national debt is now more sensitive to movements in interest rates

Published: 7 Oct 2020

UK borrowing surges as Covid pushes national debt to record £2.024tn

August’s near-£36bn borrowing figure follows unprecedented government spending

Published: 25 Sep 2020

Boris Johnson must stop destroying and start building: that’s the lesson of Covid-19

Will Tanner

Abolishing Public Health England or the overseas aid department is easy. The challenge is to create new institutions that will reshape Britain

Published: 23 Aug 2020

Published: 23 Aug 2020
Covid-19 drives UK national debt to £2tn for first time

Pandemic pushes national debt to 100.5% of GDP for first time since March 1961

Published: 21 Aug 2020

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