Is Britain’s economy finally moving?
Sticky inflation and a weakening job market could still spoil the mood
In its first weeks in office the new Labour government is hammering away at one message: on prisons, the National Health Service, the armed forces and more, the Tories left behind a terrible inheritance. It is no different for the economy. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, says Labour has been handed the worst economy of any incoming government since 1945, when Britain was loaded with wartime debt and its cities pockmarked with craters.
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One low-turnout election is not alarming. But there is a deeper problem
Do children in England talk too little?
Labour talks of promoting “oracy” alongside numeracy and literacy
A crisis in prisons gives Britain’s new government its first test
Its response? Early releases, blaming Tories and hints at reform
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