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Richard Partington

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

August 2024

  • A child's toy lies on the ground outside some boarded up abandoned houses

    Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

  • Women walk down a high street during sunny weather

    Warm weather lifts UK retail sales in July but shoppers shun big purchases

  • Engineers working in a UK factory

    Manufacturers and unions join forces to press for UK industrial strategy

  • Protesters clash with police in Westminster following the knife attacks in Southport.

    Police brace for more far-right riots as minister warns people about rallies in wake of Southport attack – as it happened

  • Bank of England cuts interest rates to 5% in first reduction since March 2020

  • Bank of England dismisses Tory claims public sector pay rises will stoke inflation

  • Bank of England braced for knife-edge interest rate decision

July 2024

  • A view of the London skyline which includes tall glass buildings, set behind old brick buildings which are in the foreground along the bank of the river Thames.

    Two City firms team up to invest £20bn of pension funds in UK businesses

  • Shoppers on Oxford Street in London shelter from the July rain

    Poor weather and cost of living crisis drive UK summer spending down

  • Composite image of Reeves, stethoscope, construction crane and City worker

    What are Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts and how do the sums add up?

  • A McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan, New York City.

    Business live
    McDonald’s sales fall for first time since 2020, as higher prices deter consumers – as it happened

  • Economics viewpoint
    Fear of a Truss repeat should not deter Reeves from rewriting spending rules

    Richard Partington

  • Eight charts that lay bare Labour’s spending inheritance from Tories

  • Soaring UK mortgage rates have pushed 320,000 adults into poverty, thinktank says

  • Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain

  • Labour says higher-than-forecast UK borrowing shows economic challenge ahead

  • Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband

  • British retail sales slump by more than forecast amid chilly weather

  • UK jobs market cools again as wage growth slows

  • UK banks told to treat politicians more fairly after Farage debanking row

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