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  • Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

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    John Healey says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live

    Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’
  • Bingo game slot machines at an indoor arcade in Warrington.

    High street ‘slot farms’ could avoid budget tax rise through bingo hall loophole

  • John Healey and Laura Kuenssberg speak while walking up a staircase lined with framed photos and prints in the Treasury

    Labour’s pledge to level-up minimum wage for under-20s before next election in doubt

  • Kemi Badenoch holds a poppy donation box among cadets and officers at Victoria Station in London

    Britain should not issue apology over slave trade, says Kemi Badenoch

  • short-necked oil beetl

    Rare beetle that oozes substance from its knees when attacked rediscovered in Wales

  • Two white Wayve self-driving cars with rooftop sensors drive along a London street

    Sadiq Khan calls for cap on numbers of robotaxis on London streets

  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves says UK’s future is in EU as she backs Andy Burnham on Brexit

  • Migrants in orange life jackets crowd an inflatable boat as a Border Force vessel approaches

    Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended

  • Police and army vehicles behind cordon tape during a security operation on a residential street

    Man in Belfast charged with possessing explosives and firearms

  • Tommy Robinson, in a suit, is surrounded by men leaving court

    Tommy Robinson conviction leaves far right with leadership void

    With heir apparent Danny Tommo also in custody, Robinson’s conviction for harassing journalists is blow to anti-migrant movement
  • Josephine Schneider's House, a children's home, stands behind a wooden slat fence and gate

    English children’s homes are in crisis. Does Denmark hold the answers?

  • Keir Starmer

    Starmer says UK must get closer to Europe as US relationship changes

  • An offshore wind farm

    Healey to veto new offshore wind projects if they will not lower bills

  • Streeting and Healey on the deck of a ship, next to the main gun turret, wearing hi-vis jackets over their suits. They are also wearing hard hats

    Streeting says he began stockpiling food weeks ago amid rising threat to UK

Analysis & explainers

  • John Healey holding up his red ministerial box

    Healey’s budget wasn’t a blockbuster but new PDEL category is innovative

  • Andy Burnham with his arm around John Healey's shoulders in the Commons.

    A world-first focus on long-term outcomes could transform UK government – or create new spending fights

  • Two engineers install solar panels on a roof

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

  • The Guardian’s political editor, Pippa Crerar, and economics editor, Heather Stewart

    Budget briefing: the key questions answered by Heather Stewart and Pippa Crerar

  • Why politicians chasing economic growth is a lie | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

    Podcast47:15

  • Why politicians chasing economic growth is a lie | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

    Podcast47:15

  • Will Healey’s budget tackle the cost of living? – podcast

    Podcast24:55

  • How Abu Dhabi bought Andy Burnham’s Manchester - podcast

    Podcast31:11

News reads

  • A man in a black T-shirt stands beside a wall displaying Chamber, Keysim, and RIPE NCC plaques

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

  • In Middlesbrough, a boy in school uniform runs past colourful murals reading 'Walk Among Trees' and 'Light Upon Hope'

    ‘Why would I leave?’: Middlesbrough pushes back against ‘hardest place to grow up’ label

  • Eric and Eva embrace cheek to cheek, smiling

    ‘It should never be forgotten’: families recount care home victims’ experiences in wake of Covid findings

  • Google technician checks a laptop between illuminated server racks in a datacentre

    ‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers

Health & science news

  • Two people running in a park

    UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn

  • A young man or teenager lying on his side on a sofa as he looks at a smartphone in his hands

    Manosphere and online misogyny should be treated as public health issues, say UK experts

  • A mother with a child sits next to another family with children in a row of red chairs in a doctor's waiting room

    Yvette Cooper drops plans to abolish NHS patient champion after outcry

  • A pile of discarded pink disposable vapes lies scattered on wooden boards

    AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban

  • A decorative plate showing a woman sewing pink fabric in a garment factory, framed by Union Jack flags

    Fashion and tradition: how John Smedley is innovating in a tough market

  • A traveler wears a festive themed hat in the departure hall of Paddington railway station, in London

    Railway engineering work over Christmas will cause 10 days of disruption

  • For years, UK governments have tried and failed to increase growth per person in the UK. So what’s the lesson from the great British fairytale? The rebel economists Karel Williams and Sukhdev Johal explain to Aditya Chakrabortty why they believe praying for growth is a fool’s dream – and why it won’t improve your life

    Why politicians chasing economic growth is a lie | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

    Video45:43
  • Train passengers boarding an Avanti West Coast service at Manchester Piccadilly railway station. Two trains with aerodynamic yellow nose ends are lined up side by side and a man is running down the platform.

    Avanti West Coast paid out £20m in ‘delay repay’ passenger refunds this summer

  • Ambulance workers and paramedics on the picket line, holding up official Unison signs

    Public sector an ‘afterthought’ to North Sea oil jobs, says Unison leader

  • Heat pump installers Simon Mockler (L) and Richard Wilkins carry a Vaillant aroTHERM plus heat pump

    Healey’s budget cuts mean Britain is likely to miss green heating targets

  • Thames Water’s Mogden sewage treatment works in west London with TW worker in foreground, back to camera

    Eight of England’s nine water companies still failing on environment, report finds

  • Miatta Fahnbulleh and John Healey, wearing orange hi-vis jackets and holding green safety helmets, smile as they talk and walk side by side

    Angry Labour MPs urge leadership not to overrule energy secretary on Rosebank

  • Patrick Stewart in front of the words Stop Violence Against Women at an Amnesty International campaign event

    ‘His honesty gave courage to survivors’: domestic abuse charities praise Patrick Stewart’s legacy

  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - February 13, 2022: Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE, 81, poses for a portrait at his home in Los Angeles. CREDIT: Philip Cheung for The Guardian

    Patrick Stewart, Star Trek and X-Men actor and acclaimed thespian, dies aged 86

  • Several gleaming gold BAFTA award masks stand in a row, reflecting warm lights

    Bafta trustees may have broken charity law by accepting free guest tickets

  • Judith Clark, in a prison work shirt, stands by a wooden table

    Shabana Mahmood urged to grant visa to former Weather Underground activist

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