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Public sector cuts

October 2023

  • Bee Network of buses, which have been taken back into public control in Greater Manchester.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s new localism: necessary work in progress

    Editorial: The failure of the Conservative party’s flagship project of levelling up is a huge opportunity for Labour
  • The Bank of England in London.

    Jeremy Hunt warns of ‘difficult decisions’ ahead as public finances worsen

    Chancellor rules out tax rises and vows to cut spending in autumn statement as borrowing rises up to £30bn more than forecast
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Sewage in rivers, crumbling schools – what next? No room in prisons for rapists and burglars

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Even as our jails run out of places, Tories push the myth that longer sentences make us safer, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

September 2023

  • Birmingham city council offices

    Councils ‘on their knees’ as they face record £3.5bn funding shortfall

  • Jeremy Hunt leaves Downing Street

    Jeremy Hunt urged to spend on public services after inflation bolsters finances

  • Hampshire police officers on petrol in Southampton, pictured from behind.

    On policing, Suella Braverman is asking the impossible

  • Ella Baron opinion cartoon, 04.09.2023: sample of decaying concrete crawling with Tory leaders

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on crumbling concrete in English schools – cartoon

  • Chaos in our skies, crumbling concrete in our schools: grim symptoms of a British disease

    Will Hutton

  • Labour must be bold enough to back a wealth tax

August 2023

  • Media gather outside the Countess of Chester hospital before a press conference on 18 August, 2023.

    The Lucy Letby case must lead to changes in hospital management

  • Big Ben, Westminster, London.

    Councils can only do so much without help from Westminster

  • Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan in Private Lives at the Donmar Warehouse, which lost its Arts Council grant last year.

    Exit, pursued by stress: bosses of smaller UK theatres quit in droves

  • Huddersfield, the main town of Kirklees district, West Yorkshire

    Yorkshire council warns of budget crisis as deficit reaches £47m

July 2023

  • Teacher instructing students

    Victoria’s education department cutting 325 jobs to meet budget targets

  • A rural bus service bus on a narrow country road in Suffolk.

    Rural bus services hit new low after losing out on post-Covid funding

  • Polly Toynbee

    Robert Jenrick going to war with Mickey Mouse is no surprise – this government is anti-child to its core

    Polly Toynbee
  • Ben Jennings opinion cartoon 03.07.2023

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on the state of the NHS on its 75th anniversary – cartoon

June 2023

  • A protest by Send Reform England in Parliament Square, London, on 21 June 2023.

    Children’s special educational needs are not being met

    Letters: Angela Lee-Foster on the struggle by her and other parents to get the support their children need
  • People walking around Oldham town centre in Greater Manchester in July 2020, when Covid cases were high in the area

    Poor people hit hardest by Covid because of NHS cuts, experts say

    Worst affected were those in northern England from minority ethnic backgrounds, inquiry told
  • David Cameron and George Osborne, pictured in 2010

    Cameron-Osborne austerity years cost UK dearly when Covid struck, says TUC

    Union body claims policies left Britain ‘hugely unprepared’, in report before opening hearing of inquiry
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