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Richard Partington

Richard Partington is the Guardian's economics correspondent. Twitter @rjpartington 

October 2024

  • Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting walk through a hospital ward

    Five key charts: what will underpin 2024 budget statement by Rachel Reeves?

  • London Stock Exchange headquarters

    Will bond vigilantes punish Rachel Reeves with a Truss-style market meltdown?

  • A rail track hugs a road snaking through the mountain, with a lake to its right and and snowcapped peaks in the background

    Reeves’s radical change to fiscal rules could go further – New Zealand shows how

  • Two women walk past a large sign in a shop window saying 'Love Barnsley'

    The sickness trap: how Barnsley has tried to fight back against worklessness

  • Budget will reverse huge cuts in UK’s public investment, Reeves confirms

  • UK’s borrowing costs rise on news that Reeves is changing fiscal rules

  • Reeves to announce major change to fiscal rules releasing £50bn for spending

  • Cross-party MPs urge Reeves to impose 2% tax on wealth above £10m

  • Rachel Reeves expected to extend ‘stealth’ freeze on income tax thresholds

  • Starmer says UK will support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’ after meeting Biden, Macron and Scholz – as it happened

  • Treasury installs ‘guard rails’ to avoid Liz Truss-style budget meltdown

  • Budget 2024: what taxes could Rachel Reeves raise?

  • Paul Johnson to leave influential IFS economics thinktank

  • Millionaire business owners urge Rachel Reeves to raise £14bn from rise in capital gains tax

  • UK inflation falls below 2% for first time since 2021 in boost to Rachel Reeves

  • What is the funding promised at Labour’s UK investment summit?

  • Elton John and Michelin meals: Labour pulls out all the stops to woo investors

  • Reeves hints at rise in employer national insurance, as critics claim it breaches manifesto

  • Business live
    Over £60bn of pledges announced at UK’s investment summit – as it happened

  • Starmer walks fine line between needs of big business and those of working people

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