Prioritising growth over all other considerations will only widen economic inequality and deepen already cavernous social crises, argues Neal Lawson
Forget the fear-mongering about a flight of the super rich. The reality is they’re not going anywhere, argues Kate Bermingham
Fed by an irresponsible media, neither voters nor political leaders are willing to accept the trade-offs inherent in fiscal choices, writes Chris Grey in his monthly column for the Byline Times print edition
Less than 5% of people with learning disabilities are employed, while 86% want to be. The Government must think about which Brits it values as being worthy of work
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms
Rachel Reeves will be leant on by City figures to deregulate the sector ahead of her keynote speech this Thursday. But transparency campaigners warn too many are falling victim to predatory finance firms
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
Reeves’ budget only looks radical if you believe the Conservative spin that their own plans were anything other than a cynical scorched earth tactic by a desperate government that knew it was going to lose
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
Maintaining the £3bn tax break for motorists has been a long-term campaign of The Sun newspaper
The Employment Rights Bill continues to face huge opposition from some employers
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
Behind the noise and spats in No 10, the Government is pushing ahead with laws that could define its time in office
The Government has announced it will include dynamic pricing in a consultation into ticket resale websites after hundreds of complaints over Oasis ticket sales. But that’s just the start
Accommodation for asylum seekers awaiting Home Office processing amounted to £6.4 billion of the overspend
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
Conservative-supporting newspapers today lead on an already repeatedly-debunked lie about Labour’s tax plans
Brexit will cost British firms £7.5 billion a year in new costs, according to a new report, with hundreds of millions wasted on border facilities that were never used
The former party leader told Byline Times that Labour will not ‘not sign up’ to Conservative budgets if the party wins the next general election – a contrast to 1997
The Prime Minister and his wife’s personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began
The founder of an employability and recruitment solutions consultancy lifts the lid on what is it like to work with the Department for Work and Pensions
Chris Grey disentangles the myriad alarming claims being made about ‘special economic zones’ and freeports in order to focus on the real risks
The Conservatives may be hoping that ‘something will turn up’ to ease the inevitable – but they are also giving Labour time to prepare for power and form a bedrock of support, writes Mike Buckley
Leicestershire School Heads have opened their books to parents showing them just how much they are struggling
Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson’s promises to “Level Up” the country are going nowhere fast, according to a damning new report by MPs
The Government’s ‘slash and crash’ Budget was left largely unscathed by Keir Starmer’s party. Why?
In the wake of recession and two massive by-election defeats, an exclusive new poll for Byline Times suggests three quarters of voters don’t believe the PM’s claim to be turning the economy around
As Britain goes into recession, the Government is planning to double down on the same slash and burn agenda that first helped get us into this economic slump
Four years on from leaving the EU, the Department for Business and Trade’s overview of Brexit tells a powerful story – of fiction
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee lambasts the Treasury for being ‘too passive’ in chasing up the cash, resulting in inaccurate figures
The National Health Service is under threat unless the Government starts properly paying its workforce, reports Michaela Makusha
Severe cramp from work must be reported to the safety regulator – but not work-related suicides. Campaigners want action beyond Ofsted reform
Four of the biggest banks in the UK amassed £41 billion in pre-tax profits in the first nine months of the year alone.
EXCLUSIVE: The Chancellor is lavishing cash at areas under significant threat from Labour
Unprotected departments face 14% cuts to fuel the Conservatives’ pre-election tax rebate
Details buried in the Chancellor’s statement show we are heading for years more of tax rises, low growth and public sector cuts thanks to his Government, reports Adam Bienkov
With only a fraction of local government audits now completed on time and a significant decline in their quality, a fundamental pillar of devolution is under threat, leaving communities in the dark on their council finances, experts warn
The RSA said it disagreed with the decision and criticised the IWGB trade union for pursuing the case against it
Despite Government calls for pay restraint, new figures show some people are doing very well out of the cost of living crisis, writes Josiah Mortimer
The two former chancellors reveal how ‘the grown-ups in the room’ collude in their outlook
A majority of voters believe “nothing in Britain really works” and say Rishi Sunak’s party has made public services worse, according to an exclusive new poll
A new parliamentary report reveals that, apart from the £16.4 billion estimated tax and benefit fraud found by the National Audit Office last year, ministers have no idea about the level of fraud in the rest of government