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Austerity

The latest news and comment on economic austerity

October 2026

  • Hilary Osborne, money editor, and Heather Stewart economics editor

    Conversations
    ‘Why has the Chancellor left the wealthiest untouched?’ – our money and economics writers answered your questions

  • John Healey holding the red box.

    Healey’s budget paves way for ‘brutal’ spending review next year, warns IFS

  • Andy Burnham speaks to employees during his visit to the King’s Trust centre in Manchester on 15 October 2026.

    The Guardian view on England’s north-south divide: Burnham must deliver more than devolution

  • Michael Gove for Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

    Today in Focus
    ‘Austerity is inevitably painful’: How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

    Podcast57:36
  • Politics Weekly UK
    ‘Austerity is inevitably painful’: How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

    Podcast57:36
  • The global economy is muddling through against the odds. But a storm is coming

    Larry Elliott
  • Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals

August 2026

  • Richard Partington

    Economics viewpoint
    Britain is paying the price for failing to invest in its young people

    Richard Partington
    Alan Milburn has outlined a generation cut adrift by austerity. We must grasp the nettle and rebuild a preventive state

June 2026

  • Boris Johnson waves a Cornish pasty during the first day of a leave campaign bus tour in Truro on 11 May 2016.

    Ten years after the vote, we have some new slogans for the Brexit bus

  • A young girl looking out of her bedroom window

    When profit is put above the welfare of vulnerable children in care

April 2026

  • Person walking past a wall with the words 'Food bank!' spray painted on it

    Austerity to blame for the fall in healthy life expectancy

    Letters: Readers respond to the news that people in the UK are spending fewer years in good health than a decade ago
  • A woman looks at houses for sale in a estate agents window, advertising the new Help to Buy scheme, in Allerton, Liverpool.

    The Guardian view on help to buy: entrenching housing inequalities, rather than helping

    Editorial: The Tories’ flagship scheme has aided higher earners most. The latest analysis of its flaws should lead to a rethink
    • Systemic failures that left Southport children at risk

    • First Edition newsletter
      Tuesday briefing: What needs to be done to tackle child poverty in the UK

      Newsletter
    • More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says

March 2026

  • Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

    We need a national plan to tackle the health inequity that is killing people

  • Two elderly men and an elderly woman sitting on bench overlooking seaTwo elderly men and an elderly woman sitting on bench overlooking sea

    The decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain should shock us all

February 2026

  • A panoramic aerial image of Birmingham skyline in Autumn2YCHHMB Panoramic Aerial image of Birmingham skyline in Autumn

    Out of the red, but at what cost? Birmingham council asset sales have left city reeling, say residents

    As council declares it’s ‘no longer bankrupt’, people say closure of services have added to social isolation and crime

January 2026

  • Goods at a food bank.

    The Guardian view on deepening poverty in the UK: a catastrophic Tory legacy has cut millions adrift

  • Two boys playing snooker in a youth club

    Today in Focus
    Can a youth club revival help the ‘anxious generation’? – podcast

    Podcast24:38
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