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Can Labour afford to be ambitious?

Can Labour afford to be ambitious?

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Can Labour afford to be ambitious?

https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-report/2023/06/paying-power-labour-finance-revitalised-uk-tax-inflation-growth

As the era of cheap money ends, the party needs to get radical on tax.

Can Labour afford to be ambitious?
Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?

Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?

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Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/27/why-are-uk-telecoms-firms-imposing-inflation-busting-bills

Exclusive: Ofcom is facing calls to intervene after companies pushed through prices rises of up to 17% this year

Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?
Britain’s house price crash ‘will be the worst in the world’

Britain’s house price crash ‘will be the worst in the world’

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Britain’s house price crash ‘will be the worst in the world’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/britain-house-price-crash-will-worst-in-world/

Downturn expected to be longest in the West as interest rate rise hammers mortgage market

Britain’s house price crash ‘will be the worst in the world’
Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder

Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder

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Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65989993

Evidence about Matthew White, now dead, implicates other suspects and reveals more police failings.

Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder
NHS plans: Sunak says expansion means 'more doctors, nurses, and GPs'

NHS plans: Sunak says expansion means 'more doctors, nurses, and GPs'

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NHS plans: Sunak says expansion means 'more doctors, nurses, and GPs'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66012333

The plan to reform NHS training and recruitment comes at a time of record-high waiting lists.

NHS plans: Sunak says expansion means 'more doctors, nurses, and GPs'
NHS trailing behind other major nations on life expectancy, study finds

NHS trailing behind other major nations on life expectancy, study finds

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NHS trailing behind other major nations on life expectancy, study finds

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-trailing-behind-other-major-nations-on-life-expectancy-study-finds-12909642

Researchers warn Britain's poor performance across several different major disease groups and health conditions including cancer, heart attacks and strokes - judged by preventable deaths - should be a serious concern for political leaders and policymakers.

NHS trailing behind other major nations on life expectancy, study finds
NHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering report

NHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering report

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NHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering report

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/26/nhss-mounting-failures-and-political-neglect-laid-bare-in-sobering-report

With its 75th anniversary fast approaching, the UK health service is ‘not by any means where it should be’, thinktank concludes

NHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering report
Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’

Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’

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Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/24/disruptive-behaviour-leaves-excluded-pupils-units-in-england-full-to-bursting

Referral unit providers warn of overwhelming demand from unprecedented poor behaviour after pandemic lull

Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’
Union fury as figures show pay rises among top earners driving inflation

Union fury as figures show pay rises among top earners driving inflation

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Union fury as figures show pay rises among top earners driving inflation

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/25/union-fury-as-figures-show-pay-rises-among-top-earners-driving-inflation

The best paid have had the highest wage hikes, but the majority of the workforce has seen salary growth fall, according to ONS data

Union fury as figures show pay rises among top earners driving inflation
Mortgage crisis: PM and chancellor face conundrum as rates rise - and there's no silver bullet to end the crisis

Mortgage crisis: PM and chancellor face conundrum as rates rise - and there's no silver bullet to end the crisis

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Mortgage crisis: PM and chancellor face conundrum as rates rise - and there's no silver bullet to end the crisis

https://news.sky.com/story/mortgage-crisis-pm-and-chancellor-face-conundrum-as-rates-rise-and-theres-no-silver-bullet-to-end-the-crisis-12907052

Sky's Ian King explains the possibilities as the government seeks ways to support hard-pressed borrowers without stoking the inflation problem further.

Mortgage crisis: PM and chancellor face conundrum as rates rise - and there's no silver bullet to end the crisis