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  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    UK defence spending
    Spending watchdog warns of £13bn defence ‘black hole’

    MoD accused of concealing scale of financial problems by being ‘over-optimistic’ on savings

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    AnalysisUK Budget
    Sunak expected to kick tough decisions down the road

    Chancellor faces conundrum of more public spending, keeping taxes down and fiscal rules

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    UK regional policy
    Johnson’s ‘levelling-up’ plan carries £1tn price tag

    Government should match rhetoric with money and policies, report urges

  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    UK Budget
    Sunak faces hard choices on tax and fiscal rules

    Expectations of end to austerity put chancellor in tight spot, says Resolution Foundation

  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
    ExplainerUK Budget
    How the UK’s new chancellor can open the spending taps

    Rewriting fiscal rules will be difficult unless Rishi Sunak scraps manifesto pledges

  • Monday, 17 February, 2020
    AnalysisUK infrastructure
    Reopening of Beeching rail lines faces long delays

    Tory manifesto pledge aimed at ‘levelling up’ the regions of Britain faces uphill struggle

  • Monday, 17 February, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How to rewrite the rules for UK public finances

    New chancellor should review but not scrap borrowing guidelines

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s green light for HS2 is worth the risks

    The government must now restore oversight of the rail scheme

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    HS2
    HS2 faces three-way split to win critics’ backing

    Boris Johnson offers £5bn for buses and bikes among plans to stall Tory revolt

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  • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
    Javid’s £100bn spending pledge ‘will not level up’ UK

    Investment will have only a modest impact on long-term productivity, says think-tank

  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2020
    UK local government finance
    Councils warn of tax rises in struggle to balance books

    Cash-strapped English authorities under pressure after decade of Whitehall cuts

  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2020
    National Health Service
    Warning on long-term financial sustainability of NHS

    Alert from spending watchdog over capital funding shortfalls and reliance on short-term handouts

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    UK public finances
    Javid’s surplus goal at risk as coffers face £12bn black hole

    FT calculations and BoE growth forecasts suggest hard choice for chancellor on higher tax or more austerity

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
    UK Budget
    Johnson and Javid order budget cuts of at least 5%

    Ministers told to axe plans not related to health, crime or regional inequality

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
    Brexit ad blitz had little impact, says watchdog

    Campaign in October was billed as biggest since second world war

  • Friday, 24 January, 2020
    Transport for London
    Sadiq Khan faces pressure to remove TfL fares freeze

    London transport agency struggles with Crossrail costs and stalled passenger numbers

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    UK public finances
    UK public sector borrowing increases in the year so far

    Significant rise on previous year follows pledges to boost investment after decade of austerity

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How to move the public sector out of London

    Britain needs a strategic approach to decentralising government

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Climate change
    Citizens’ assembly to offer government climate advice

    Group of 110 tasked with choosing ways to hit 2050 net zero emissions target

  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    Markets Briefing
    European stocks edge lower while oil climbs

    Pound dips following UK chancellor’s hard Brexit remarks

  • Sunday, 19 January, 2020
    UK infrastructure
    Treasury pushes for £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to be axed

    Transport secretary at odds with senior figures who say road project is bad value for money

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    Northern Ireland
    Stormont rejects Johnson’s £2bn offer as ‘inadequate’

    Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin say weak funding pledge will make power-sharing tougher

  • Sunday, 12 January, 2020
    BBC
    BBC plans to move two-thirds of jobs outside London

    Director-general launches staunch defence of public service broadcaster’s role

  • Sunday, 12 January, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    It is time to get UK high-speed rail back on track

    Ministers should back HS2 but reduce costs and restore oversight

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    Richard Layard
    North needs social infrastructure, not just rail

    Mental health interventions are the most cost-effective generators of happiness

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