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Also in this week’s newsletter, London’s housing crisis
Plus, Labour prepares for another go at reforming sickness benefits
Plus, the impact of rising oil prices on public finances
Plus, the gap between Rachel Reeves’ rhetoric and her spending plans
Plus, Keir Starmer neutralises potential Send rebellion
Plus, green jobs risk derailing insurgent party’s national message
Plus, rising public frustration with high state spending and taxes
Plus, the winners and the losers from the student loan changes
Also in this week’s newsletter: Mahmood’s far-reaching police reforms
Also in today’s newsletter: new labour market data highlights the worrying number of long-term sick
Also in this week’s newsletter, why hard choices keep losing at the ballot box
Plus, the push to reduce special education costs
Plus, Bank of England cuts interest rates but signals caution on future reductions
Also in this week’s newsletter: Flu cases hit record levels in England’s hospitals
All is not well with Labour’s plan to cut waiting lists by using independent hospitals for many routine procedures
The chancellor’s £10bn of extra welfare payments will fall on the shoulders of companies, entrepreneurs and ‘working people’
Also in this week’s newsletter, domestic investors pull money from UK equities
Also in this newsletter, a surge in applications from companies wanting to connect to the grid
Plus, the Treasury’s decision to spare banks lifts shares
Also in this week’s newsletter: why the economy is politically impossible to manage
Plus, rumblings about a levy on international student fees
Also in this week’s newsletter: a warning for the rest of British industry from the National Cyber Security Centre
Also in this week’s newsletter: signs of life in London’s IPO market
Also in this week’s newsletter, gilt investors take fright at Andy Burnham’s comments
Plus some good news for inward investment into NI