Author: The Guardian

Healey vows to stick to fiscal rules in budget built on hope

Chancellor tells Labour conference it’s ‘not progressive’ to fail to balance books amid rising welfare bill as borrowing costs climb to record highBusiness live – latest updatesPrice of diesel on UK forecourts reaches all-time...

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Warning Burnham’s social care plan could cost far more than he says, and take ‘decades’ to implement – UK politics live

Statistician Andrew Dilnot says that putting social care on the same footing as health care would cost ‘well in excess of £18bn’Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, has been doing the morning interview round for Labour. Mostly...

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