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Phillip Inman

Phillip Inman is economics editor of the Observer and an economics writer for the Guardian. He is the author of Managing Your Debt, a Which? essential guide; and the Guardian e-book The Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Here?

February 2025

  • View of the Bank of England from a low angle with statues silhouetted in the foreground

    Observer business agenda
    Pressure rises on Bank of England and the Fed as the interest rate debate gets political

  • Hampshire county council offices

    Ministers could allow council tax to rise by up to 25% to prevent bankruptcies

January 2025

  • Sunrise at the Eiffel Tower in Paris along the Seine

    European Central Bank cuts interest rates after eurozone growth stalls

  • Christine Lagarde giving a speech

    Political interference in central banks risks economic harm, ECB president warns

  • A worker at a Siemens production facility in the UK

    AI-based automation of jobs could increase inequality in UK, report says

  • National Farmers Union president Tom Bradshaw (left) and NFU Cymru president Aled Jones at 10 Downing Street on Friday

    Rachel Reeves has to realise she can’t plough on with the farm tax

    Phillip Inman

  • Reeves to instruct national wealth fund to work with mayors to boost growth

  • Business live
    Davos day two: Spain’s PM warns tech billionaires threaten democracy; Jamie Dimon says ‘get over’ Trump tariffs - as it happened

  • UK borrowing jumps unexpectedly, adding to pressure on Rachel Reeves

  • Is UK jobs market already showing warning lights over Reeves budget?

  • Market turmoil has calmed but Rachel Reeves faces more challenges ahead

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Minister denies Labour ‘governing by social media’ after new grooming gangs review ordered – as it happened

  • IMF upgrades UK growth forecast and takes swipe at Trump plans

  • Pressure eases on Rachel Reeves as UK economy grows by 0.1% in November

  • Fall in UK trade with EU should spur rewrite of post-Brexit rules, says IPPR

  • Business live
    Pound slides to fresh 14-month low as stocks fall; rise in UK borrowing costs reverses – as it happened

  • If a Labour chancellor has to start cutting, keep calm. It’s not a betrayal

    Phillip Inman

  • Reeves tries to regain her footing as UK economic recovery plan teeters

  • UK needs to ban full hybrid cars by 2030 or face net zero ‘catastrophe’, says motoring body

December 2024

  • Xi Jinping delivers a New Year message to China.

    Xi says China’s economy on course to expand by 5% despite Trump concerns

    President seeks to allay fears that world’s second-largest economy will falter in 2025 because of high US tariffs
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