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UK cost of living crisis

November 2026

  • Isabella Weber, photographed on Sept 4

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: ‘A dignified life for all must be the north star’: economist Isabella Weber answers your questions

    Newsletter
  • Woman shopping online with laptop at christmasED1M2F Woman shopping online with laptop at christmas

    Tell us: are you changing how you celebrate Christmas this year?

30 October 2026

  • Chancellor John Healey displays the red budget briefcase to the media in Downing Street, London, on 28 October 2026

    This budget fails to live up to Andy Burnham’s grand rhetoric

    Letters: Caitlin Boswell of Tax Justice UK and others on what Aditya Chakrabortty described as a ‘Martin Lewis budget’
  • Halloween products on display at Poundland

    Poundland in peril: how rampant inflation and price wars left £1 stores exposed

    With the chain on the brink of administration, its low-profile US owners face questions about their conduct
  • Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey, sit leaning on a white table, Burnham gesticulates

    Andy Burnham admits he would have liked more radical first budget

    Prime minister says room for manoeuvre was limited by geopolitical crises and Labour’s 2024 manifesto

29 October 2026

  • Andy Burnham removes a blade from an engine during a visit to the Rolls Royce factory in Derby on Thursday

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Burnham denies preventing ministers from speaking about plans for closer relationship with EU – as it happened

    Prime minister wrote to ministers saying he did not want them to ‘advocate for specific options or opine on the likely outcome of the process’
  • An exterior view of a Lloyds bank branch

    Lloyds executive criticises Healey for linking bank tax rises to energy bill support

    Chief financial officer says he hopes budget measure is temporary as sector provides loans that fuel growth

    • ‘Scattergun’ budget will still leave Britons facing higher energy bills, says thinktank

    • ‘I earn £126,000 – but nothing’s left at the end of the month’: readers react to the budget

    • How will John Healey’s energy support package affect you?

28 October 2026

  • Andy Burnham embraces John Healey while seated among colleagues in the House of Commons

    Budget 2026: Healey hikes taxes on banks and landlords to fund £100 handouts to 20m households

  • A watercolour heart painting representing a Rorschach test

    The Guardian view on Labour’s budget: bold ambitions and welcome first steps

  • John Healey has promised to help Britons navigate ‘global economic storms’ in his first budget as chancellor - but the Tories have criticised the Treasury for kicking the can down the road on big decisions. Lucy Hough speaks to economics editor Heather Stewart

    Today in Focus: The Latest
    Bills, banks, ‘breathing space’: what was in Burnham’s first budget? - The Latest

    Video10:59
  • John Healey smiles as he holds up the red budget box outside No 11 Downing Street

    Politics Weekly UK
    Will Healey’s budget tackle the cost of living? – podcast

    Podcast24:55

  • Today in Focus
    Bills, banks, ‘breathing space’: what was in Burnham’s first budget? - The Latest

    Podcast11:47

  • ‘A pretty grim picture’: outlook for UK living standards slashed despite Healey’s budget

  • Income tax: Healey’s budget leaves thresholds frozen again. How much more will you pay?

  • John Healey to end standing charges on gas bills for 23m homes

27 October 2026

  • John Healey, jacket off, at kitchen table working on papers

    Chancellor targets cost of living crisis in budget for a ‘difficult moment’

  • Ella Baron on the autumn budget – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on the autumn budget – cartoon

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