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Public sector cuts

January 2024

  • Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour party

    Councils in crisis
    Angela Rayner: Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plaster

  • An elderly resident using a walker, flanked by carers, at a care home.

    The Guardian view on the voluntary sector and the state: this crucial relationship needs resetting

  • John Harris

    One by one, England’s councils are going bankrupt – and nobody in Westminster wants to talk about it

    John Harris
  • Richard Partington

    Economics viewpoint
    Forget talk of Labour’s ‘tax bombshell’. It’s Tory policy that needs a watchful eye

    Richard Partington

December 2023

  • Nottingham's council house.

    The Observer view on Tory economic policy: only active public investment will cure Britain’s ills

  • Old family photos and documents used in genealogy.

    Wills are valuable historical testimonies worth preserving

  • Welsh finance minister Rebecca Evans

    Wales government announces raft of cuts to public services

  • Samir Shah, who is to replace Richard Sharp as the next chair of the BBC, in London on 13 December 2023.

    The panel
    Troublesome talent and meddling ministers. As BBC chair, Samir Shah, here’s what you’ve got to do

    Armando Iannucci, Jane Martinson, Pat Younge, Marcus Ryder, Sophie Chalk, Patrick Barwise, Peter York and Joe Lycett

November 2023

  • The Robin Hood statue in Nottingham.

    UK spends more financing inequality in favour of rich than rest of Europe, report finds

  • Jeremy Hunt grins over his shoulder at the camera

    The Observer view on why Britain needs a growth plan, not magical thinking

  • Refuse collectors carry bags to a dust cart.

    Which public services will suffer most to pay for Tory tax cuts?

  • Chancellor Jeremy Hunt leaves Downing Street to deliver the autumn statement on 22 November 2023.

    The Guardian view on the Tories’ pro-rich tax giveaway: to be paid for by bankrupting the state

  • Hunt ‘will create implausible austerity with post-election public spending cuts’

  • Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain

    Luke Turner

October 2023

  • Ambulance staff carrying Unite union banners strike in January 2023:

    The Guardian view on declining public services: Labour should level with the public

  • Sir William Beveridge, whose 1942 report ‘identified five key evils: idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want’.

    The shame of a million children living in destitution in Britain

  • A group of prisoners walk across a yard and enter a prison building

    UK public services in ‘doom loop’ due to short-term policies, thinktank warns

  • Frances Ryan

    The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary

    Frances Ryan

  • The furore over the BBC’s Israel-Gaza coverage shows how strong and independent it needs to be

    Pat Younge

  • The Guardian view on probation: the service has not recovered from a privatisation disaster

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