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Larry Elliott

Larry Elliott

The Guardian

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The doomsters were wrong about the minimum wage. They’re wrong about Labour’s new deal for workers, too

It will cost jobs. It will harm the UK’s competitiveness. It will make the labour market less flexible. For those with long enough memories, the...

04.04.2024 20

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Larry Elliott

Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on conspiracy theories around the Princess of Wales – cartoon

21.03.2024 20

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Larry Elliott

Rachel Reeves is staking it all on economic growth. So where’s her plan to achieve it?

The pursuit of growth is an obsession for politicians the world over. Olaf Scholz thinks more growth would make him a more popular German chancellor....

20.03.2024 7

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The manifesto Britain needs Britain’s economy is deeply flawed. These are the three pledges Labour must make to fix it

It is a statement of the obvious that Britain’s economy has deep structural flaws that are badly in need of fixing. A chronic balance of payments...

13.02.2024 20

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The unexpected message from the US for Keir Starmer: it’s not just the economy, stupid

This November’s presidential election ought to be a doddle for Joe Biden. Fears of recession have receded. More Americans have jobs than ever...

24.01.2024 50

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Labour will be taking a risk sticking by its £28bn green energy plan. It should do it anyway

It’s official: 2023 was the hottest year since records began and by some distance. The Earth is now 1.48C warmer than it was before the dawn of the...

11.01.2024 1

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It’s easy to condemn ‘eat out to help out’, but Sunak’s motivations were justified

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It is always easy to spot the schoolboy error and be an expert on what should have been done. The inquiry into...

14.12.2023 10

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I’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn’t. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream

Brexit is a dead issue at Westminster. There are any number of issues where it is hard to separate Labour and the Conservatives, and the reluctance to...

05.12.2023 5

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Trust us with AI, say the big tech titans. That’s what the banks said before the 2008 crisis

When the great and the good of Silicon Valley pitched up in Buckinghamshire for Rishi Sunak’s AI safety summit, they came with a simple message:...

01.11.2023 2

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Pay is finally rising faster than prices. But this won’t save the Tories

It’s been a while, but for the first time in two years pay is rising faster than prices. After being squeezed hard by the highest inflation in 40...

18.10.2023 2

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Councils going bust, schools crumbling, the NHS in crisis: the answer is more tax

Schools at risk of falling down. Councils going bust. If ever there were any doubts that the Tories are on course to be booted out at the next...

07.09.2023 100

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