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Public sector cuts

March 2024

  • Jeremy Hunt appearing before the Treasury committee

    Hunt says plan to scrap employee national insurance could ‘take more than a decade’

  • Close up shot of doctor counting pulse by holding hand of sick patient.

    The desperate struggle to access NHS treatment

  • A cyclist avoids potholes along a road near Preston Park in Brighton, East Sussex

    ‘Impossible numbers’: where could Jeremy Hunt’s budget cuts fall?

  • women NHS workers in a hospital ward

    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

  • Birmingham Council House, Birmingham, England

    Nineteen English councils handed multimillion-pound bailout agreements

  • Woking borough council offices in Woking, Surrey.

    The Guardian view on local government finance: a crisis that corrodes democracy

  • A contractor cleaning Old Market Square in Nottingham with the Council House in the background

    Nearly one in 10 English councils expect to go bust in next year, survey finds

  • Jeremy Hunt

    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

  • From left, school caretaker Ian Coates and students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar who were fatally stabbed in Nottingham last year.

    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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