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Richard Partington

Richard Partington is the Guardian's economics correspondent. Twitter @rjpartington 

July 2024

  • The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, gives a speech at the Treasury in London

    Rachel Reeves to announce economic advisory council to boost UK growth

  • The new chancellor, Rachel Reeves

    Surprise growth boost for Labour as GDP rises by 0.4% in May

  • Busy shopping street with people dressed in coats and jackets

    Retail sales dip in June as UK’s cooler weather and cost of living bite

  • Jonathan Haskel looks out of a window in the Bank of England building

    Bank of England should keep interest rates on hold, says policymaker

  • Amazon’s Coventry workers begin voting in historic union ballot

  • Voter turnout at general election was lowest since 2001 – politics live as it happened

  • Former Tory minister may become Labour’s ‘planning tsar’

  • Housebuilders rally as investors bet on Starmer’s new homes pledge

  • Pound holds steady after exit poll predicts Labour landslide victory

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    PM says he will take full responsibility for result after minister predicts Labour landslide – as it happened

  • UK service sector growth ‘seizes up’ as firms put plans on hold before election

  • Labour landslide may boost investment and confidence in UK, say City analysts

  • Eurozone inflation eases but ECB likely to keep interest rates on hold

  • Next UK government poised to benefit from fall in inflation and fuel prices

  • UK house prices still unaffordable for many people, says Nationwide

May 2024

  • Prospective Labour MP for Peckham, Miatta Fanbulleh. Peckham, south London.

    Observer business profile
    ‘Labour will surpass your expectations’: the leftwing thinktank boss standing on Starmer’s agenda

    Miatta Fahnbulleh is running for parliament – and, as a black female economist, hopes to broaden parliament’s outlook on ‘the rules of the game’
  • With the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral as their backstop Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves visit to London Stock Exchange Group last September

    ‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive

    Starmer and Reeves have created 2020s version of party’s 1990s ‘prawn cocktail offensive’ – and business appears hungry for it
  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner in hard hats and hi-vis jackets

    Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ will not fully ban zero-hours contracts

    Exclusive: Revised proposals will allow employees to choose a zero-hour option, prompting fears of undue pressure from employers

April 2024

  • Birmingham city council building

    Economics viewpoint
    From welfare to warfare: Sunak’s spending shift imperils local services again

    Richard Partington
  • Pollution and plant debris on the Grand Union Canal

    Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn

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