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Public sector cuts
March 2024
Hunt says plan to scrap employee national insurance could ‘take more than a decade’
The desperate struggle to access NHS treatment
‘Impossible numbers’: where could Jeremy Hunt’s budget cuts fall?
How a Conservative budget failed to help women (again)
IFS warns of Labour and Tory ‘conspiracy of silence’ over future tax and spending plans
Politics Weekly UK
The Spring Budget: more cuts to come? – Politics Weekly UK
Jeremy Hunt defies public services alarm with pre-election budget tax cuts
NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS
The Guardian view on Treasury fiscal rules: no way to run a country
Councils in crisis
‘A huge step back for the city’: people in Birmingham on council budget cuts
For years, the Tories said austerity was over. But look around: it’s getting worse, and there’s more to come
John Harris
Economics viewpoint
Jeremy Hunt will try to talk a long game while scrambling to fund pre-election tax cuts
Larry Elliott
One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it
Aditya Chakrabortty
February 2024
Nineteen English councils handed multimillion-pound bailout agreements
The Guardian view on local government finance: a crisis that corrodes democracy
Nearly one in 10 English councils expect to go bust in next year, survey finds
UK public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn
Are older, richer voters really against big spending? Maybe not as much as Labour fears
‘I plan fewer outings’: Britons on the scarcity of public toilets
January 2024
The loss of mental health beds has gone dangerously too far
Letter:
One reader recalls the difference between the treatment that their son received for psychotic episodes in 1987 and 2023
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