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Autumn statement 2016

October 2017

  • Students relaxing on steps in the sunshine on campus at the University of East Anglia, UEA, Norwich, UK<br>A2B3PD Students relaxing on steps in the sunshine on campus at the University of East Anglia, UEA, Norwich, UK

    Frugal students won't need help from their parents, says Jo Johnson

    Universities minister says those struggling to live on maintenance loan can choose to get by in other ways

December 2016

  • The November borrowing figure was lower than last year’s £13.2bn.

    Government borrowing higher than expected in November

  • Philip Hammond giving evidence to the Treasury committee.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Hammond calls for transitional deal for when UK leaves EU - Politics live

  • Philip Hammond

    Hammond favours transitional deal with EU – video

  • teacher and pupil receiving support

    Leadership, learning and development in social care
    One in 10 jobs in learning disability services at risk – report

  • Demand is weak and investment’s faltering. That’s OK then

    Phillip Inman

  • There is a plan: Brexit means good riddance to austerity

    John Redwood

30 November 2016

  • Tony Blair giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs vote down motion accusing Blair of misleading them over Iraq by majority of 369 - Politics live

    Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs
  • Seniors in garden of nursing home

    Social care is life support for millions. The chancellor has a duty to fund it

    Vicky McDermott
    Washing, dressing and eating: it can be as basic as that. Yet in the autumn statement, the crisis caused by cuts was brushed aside
  • social care

    Government inaction on social care funding needs a radical response

    Re-stating the case for better funding is not enough, the sector needs a grassroots social movement to press for reform

29 November 2016

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    Clinging to illusions – the blinkered elite who still think austerity works

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Theresa May and her cabinet refuse to move on from ideas that hurt the poor and help the rich. It’s a collective death wish
  • Children play in front of their homes on the Falinge Estate

    Three things the government must put in the housing white paper

    Luke Murphy
    Creating a comprehensive housing strategy will need to include special treatment for London, more devolved housing control, and land reform
  • Philip Hammond

    Hammond facing growing Tory rebellion over social care crisis

    MPs dismayed issue was not addressed in autumn statement amid warnings there could be a tax credit-style rebellion

27 November 2016

  • Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham.

    Why not move the Queen to Yorkshire’s Pemberley?

  • Katie Allen

    Economics viewpoint
    Hammond needs to look beyond road-building to lift UK's productivity

    Katie Allen
  • Autumn Statement 2016<br>File photo dated 23/11/16 of Chancellor Philip Hammond leaving 11 Downing Street, London, holding a copy of his Autumn Statement, as the head of the official budget watchdog has defended its economic forecasts warning of the cost to Britain of leaving the European Union. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday November 25, 2016. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) infuriated pro-Brexit Conservatives with its prediction that withdrawal would wipe 2.4% off growth over the next five years while adding almost £60 billion to borrowing. See PA story POLITICS Budget. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Chancellor wrong on social care funding, says former health secretary – video

  • Cartoon of Theresa May in the circus trying to get three fats cats to jump through a hoop

    Business leader
    OK, no workers in the boardroom: but May must be strong on executive pay

26 November 2016

  • ‘Other older people are in hospital when their condition could have been prevented by better support.’

    Shamefully, the autumn statement said nothing about social care

    Jennifer Dixon and Anita Charlesworth
    The gap is widening between short-termist welfare budgets and real needs
  • Chris Riddell 27/11/2016

    Observer comment cartoon
    Philip Hammond and the cost of Brexit

    Chris Riddell on the chancellor’s autumn statement
  • Patrick Collinson

    On reflection
    Unfair letting fees ban? Truth is the agents just got too greedy

    Patrick Collinson
    The Guardian has been calling for an end to the exploitation for more than a decade
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