Last week's budget's stamp duty and railcard tinkering will not deal with generational inequality and the north-south...
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Budget 2017 Articles
The priorities are all wrong
Alison McGovern lays out five tests the budget should have met November’s budget was an attempt for politics to trump...
Winter crisis is coming
We should be prepared for the NHS to be let down again by this week's budget, writes Martin Edobor On BBC’s Andrew...
Eradicating low pay
Offering incentives for businesses to pay the living wage has shown to be an effective way for councils to work with...
Missed opportunity
Philip Hammond missed the chance to change course with his post-Brexit budget, argues Seema Malhotra MP It is fair to...
The Tory ‘decade without growth’
A stronger opposition would be well-placed to pressure the government on its faltering economic record, writes Stephen...
Do not go gentle into the night
Blithely accepting that Labour's electoral coalition is sundered and that the next election is unwinnable is an...
The silence of the Brexiteers
Philip Hammond's reluctance to talk about Brexit casts doubt over the government's insistence that Brexit will be a...
Single parents paying the price
The rollout of universal credit will disproportionately punish single parents, writes director of policy at...
An open goal on self-employment
Philip Hammond's assault on the self-employed provides Labour with a golden opportunity to win over Tory voters – that...
Social care bears the brunt
The public, politicians and the media must demand a sustainable solution to Britain's adult social care crisis, argues...
Disaster for small business
The increase to national insurance contributions in this year's budget is yet another Tory assault on small businesses...