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Autumn budget 2021

November 2021

  • Shadow minister for young people, Cat Smith

    Youth services suffer ‘stealth cut’ of more than £400m, Labour claims

    The opposition says £560m promised in last week’s budget includes the cost of running pre-existing services
  • Supporters of the jailed activist, James Brown, outside Wandsworth prison

    Why the silence over support for the jailed climate activist James Brown?

    Letters: Christine Sanders on the nightly vigil held outside Wandsworth prison for the Extinction Rebellion protester
  • Slough High Street in October 2021.

    The answer to business rates? A tax on land

    Letters: Michael Meadowcroft outlines the alternative that has been available for more than a hundred years, and Mike Wake asks about the shortfall faced by councils if rates are reduced

31 October 2021

  • Climate activists stage a demonstration in Glasgow ahead of the Cop26 summit

    As Cop26 begins, it’s time to face inconvenient truths

    Letters: The UK is failing to lead the way with its climate policies, says David Humphreys, while Michael Stone calls for a more realistic way to measure the country’s carbon footprint. Plus letters from Dr Steve Hyer and Drusilla Long
  • Rishi Sunak visits the Fourpure brewery in London after unveiling his autumn budget

    Brief letters
    Sunak’s budget has drinkers over a barrel

    Brief letters: Alcohol duty | Sleeper trains | Acronyms | Recycled rolling pins | Facebook

    • double quotation markMr Sunak, rising taxes and soaring prices do not add up to an Age of Optimism

      Andrew Rawnsley

    • William Keegan's in my view
      double quotation markJohnson’s foreign quarrels can’t conceal the truth about Brexit

      William Keegan

    • Business leader
      double quotation markSunak isn’t planning for business – he’s budgeting for the next election

30 October 2021

  • Chris Riddell illustration

    Observer comment cartoon
    Tory Halloween tricks but no treat – cartoon

    Chris Riddell on ghouls, Brexit and the budget
  • Local resident Janet Walsh with her dogs in the Market town of Pudsey in West Yorkshire,England. Pudsey is located half way between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre.

    ‘It’s not going to help anyone here’: the Yorkshire town unmoved by Rishi Sunak’s £20m ‘largesse’

    Despite the chancellor’s ‘levelling up’ cash, there were few signs of optimism in Pudsey market
  • Rishi Sunak raises a pint glass

    Is smooth Sunak’s honeymoon period coming to an end?

    Analysis: many Tory MPs are frustrated with the chancellor’s attitude to spending, and his focus on self-image

29 October 2021

  • Man using calculator

    Brief letters
    Better or worse off? There’s nothing in it

  • Pint of stout

    Craft beer brewers say alcohol duty changes threaten their business

  • Colourful Georgian houses at Hotwells Bristol

    UK borrowers warned: the days of cheap mortgages are over

  • The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, at a sweet shop in Bury Market in Lancashire

    Inflation leaves ministers starved of funds despite budget handouts

28 October 2021

  • Steve Bell cartoon 29.10.2021

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on the budget’s winners and losers – cartoon

    Duty on sparkling wine will be cut in Rishi Sunak’s autumn spending review but increases to benefits will not help the unemployed
  • Theresa May in Commons

    Rishi Sunak faces Tory backlash over ‘big state, high tax’ budget

    Chancellor receives lukewarm reception from Conservative grandees over scale of spending

    • Don’t be fooled by Rishi Sunak’s conjuring trick

    • The politics sketch
      double quotation markTories all at sea in dispute about trawler ‘kidnapped’ by French

      John Crace

    • double quotation markNow it’s official: Brexit will damage the economy long into the future

      Jonathan Portes
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